James Bucanek wrote:

Ben Bass wrote:I was wondering if there was a way to keep the QRecall archive on a network volume, have it auto-mount when the volume is available, but not have QRecall or the OS complain that the network volume is unreachable.

Not at this time. QRecall will attempt to auto-mount any volume before an action begins, but a failure to mount that volume is considered a fatal error, and QRecall will complain about it.

If this is something that people would like, I can put it on the to-do list.

I saw some early comments about a command line version, which would be awesome as I could write my own scripts if necessary where I can check which network they are on and have the archiving cleanly fail if they are not.

A command line version is definitely in the works. Right now, QRecall is undergoing a lot of testing. It just had its core file system logic completely rewritten so it uses Apple's approved APIs. It's going to need a lot of testing before I spring it on any unexacting beta testers.

Just to update you. I setup an automount on my mac by editing my /etc/auto_master and placing the QRecall archive on the network volume mounted via the automount. When I am on the network it works like a charm, and with the "Ignore Archive" conditional set it quietly fails, which is the behavior I was going for. I am trying it out now to see how well it works over VPN's. I might deal with this through time of day conditionals, but will see what I come across.

James Bucanek wrote:

Ben Bass wrote:I was wondering if there was a way to keep the QRecall archive on a network volume, have it auto-mount when the volume is available, but not have QRecall or the OS complain that the network volume is unreachable.

Not at this time. QRecall will attempt to auto-mount any volume before an action begins, but a failure to mount that volume is considered a fatal error, and QRecall will complain about it.

If this is something that people would like, I can put it on the to-do list.

I saw some early comments about a command line version, which would be awesome as I could write my own scripts if necessary where I can check which network they are on and have the archiving cleanly fail if they are not.

A command line version is definitely in the works. Right now, QRecall is undergoing a lot of testing. It just had its core file system logic completely rewritten so it uses Apple's approved APIs. It's going to need a lot of testing before I spring it on any unexacting beta testers.

Having an option to have QRecall not complain when it can't mount a volume would be awesome. Glad to hear there still is a command line version in the works.

Thank you!

James Bucanek wrote:
Remove the Ignore If No Archive conditional from the hourly capture of your home folder. The action will run regardless of whether your network volume is mounted or not. If the volume can be mounted, QRecall will mount it and run. It the volume isn't available, QRecall will complain.

Hi there.

I was wondering if there was a way to keep the QRecall archive on a network volume, have it auto-mount when the volume is available, but not have QRecall or the OS complain that the network volume is unreachable. I have many clients that have laptops and I don't want to have an error dialogue pop up when they aren't on the network, I would like it to just fail gracefully.

I saw some early comments about a command line version, which would be awesome as I could write my own scripts if necessary where I can check which network they are on and have the archiving cleanly fail if they are not.

Thank you!

-Ben Bass