First off let me say that QRecall is truly TimeMachine for adults - exactly the solution I was looking for.

On my laptop I set up QRecall to backup upon volume connect and every hour after that. I did not start the backup immediately and pleasantly watched the scheduler wake up at the appropriate time - the volume being connected - and do the right thing. All of the verify, compact and merge actions went off without a hitch.

Except for manual captures I have not be able to get QRecall to run on desktop - nothing triggered by the scheduler fires. EVER.

My desktop machine is configured like this:
Macintosh SSD - my boot drive
RAID HD - my primary data drive, a Thunderbolt RAID

I set up a backup to start - for both volumes - when the backup volume is mounted and every hour after that. The usual verify, merge and compact actions. Since I want both to happen together I set both up to not start until the schedule fired - no immediate first save. Nothing fires. Ever.

There are tale tell signs that something is wrong.

For instance, attempt to immediate execute an actions results is "Action not scheduled" and "The scheduler service could not be contacted...". No amount of log out/in or rebooting causes a backup to kick off. Works fine on the single volume laptop...

For instance, I check the "Show in menu bar" option in the Monitor preference. This works fine on my laptop however on my desktop it never appears. Quit QRecall and restart it and the check next to "Show in menu bar" has disappeared.

That said, my home directory is on the RAID HD drive, not Macintosh SSD - a fully supported but oft unused capability of MacOS. Perchance does the scheduler expect home directories to be on the boot volume? If so, the necessary files containing the schedule information are not there, they are RAID HD. Locating my home directory should just work - there is an official "NS" service to obtain such a datum - but if not used what I observe can occur.

At this point I am unable to get QRecall to work on my desktop and so I am requesting help.

-- mark