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Mac OS X Retrospect Tutorials

Here are a collection of retrospect tutorials made available from the Retrospect website and copied here for easy access. We urge you to check the Retrospect knowledgebase web site for the most current information: http://kb.dantz.com/

Automatic Shutdown After Backup

(This software has only been tested under OS X 10.3 (Panther) with Retrospect 6.0 Client software.)

EMC Dantz Technical Support has created an AppleScript utility to shutdown the client following a backup.

To install the AppleScript: download the .dmg file for cShutdown. When you mount the image, you will see the cShutdown application. Double clicking will begin the install. There are certain requirements needed to run the cShutdown AppleScript:

  1. You will need to have the Retrospect Client software installed on the machine before you install cShutdown. If you do not have the Retrospect Client software installed, cShutdown will give an error and not install.
  2. You MUST have Administrator privileges on the machine you are installing cShutdown on. cShutdown will ask for you to put in an Administrator level password, and will not be able to install without it.
  3. OS X is required. This software will not work on OS 9 or earlier.

After you have started the installation of cShutdown and it has checked to make sure you have the Retrospect Client installed, the program will offer you a choice of Install, Uninstall, or Cancel. Once you have installed the program you do not need to restart the machine in order to have the program work. However, there are two requirements that MUST be met for cShutdown to work properly:

  1. You MUST be logged out of the computer. Do not turn off the computer, or put it to sleep. You should see the login window if you are logged out.
  2. A backup must have run on the machine. cShutdown checks for this every half hour. The backup must have run in the last hour for cShutdown to work.

Firewall Configuration

(Mac OS 10.2 and later)

This tutorial describes how to open port 497 for both TCP and UDP Packets with Mac OS 10.2.x.

Note: To backup any Retrospect client, your networking hardware MUST have port 497 open for both TCP and UDP packets.

Opening the system preferences pane.

Open your System Preference Pane.

Opening sharing pane from the system preferences pane.

Click Sharing.

Stopping the firewall in Sharing Preferences.

Click the Firewall Tab then click Stop to stop the Firewall.

Clicking new to add a new rule.

Click New to specify a rule.

Selecting retrospect in the new rule window.

Next to Port Name, click the scroll menu and choose Retrospect.

Verifying the port number and clicking OK.

Verify the Port Number 497 then click OK.

Restarting the firewall.

Click Start to turn the Firewall back on. This is how the window will appear after the Firewall is re-enabled.

 
 
 
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