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More on Applescript and Mirroring (4 posts)

• Started 14 years ago by jtzeng
• Latest reply 14 years ago from Jim Matthews

• jtzeng Member

  Mirroring to an off site location over the internet has problems with connections over longer periods when data size and connections speeds require hours to complete.
  I am using 5.3 on 10.4.11 server.

  My questions are as follows:
  1. Is there a way to set a retry count?
  2. Is there a way in Applescript to detect the problem and loop.
  3. Is there a way to get a list of files put to generate a log?
  4. Is there a way to suppress the put error dialog that comes up in Fetch and is duplicated in the apples script?
  5. If auto retry or looping not viable, can I quit the applescript cleanly so it does not take operator intervention to run the next time?

  My App:
  tell application "Fetch"
  with timeout of 10800 seconds
  activate
  mirror alias "/Volumes/ACI OSX/4DBK" to url "ftp://user:passwoord@ip.address/array1/ACIBK/4DBK/" format Binary with delete strays
  mirror alias "/Office_Share" to url "ftp://user:passwoord@ip.address/array1/ACIBK/Office_Share/" format Binary without delete strays
  mirror alias "/Locked_Share" to url "ftp://user:passwoord@ip.address/array1/ACIBK/Locked_Share/" format Binary without delete strays
  quit
  end timeout
  end tell

  Posted 14 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  Hi,

  The answer to 1. and 2. is yes. To do this you would replace each of your mirror statements with something like this:

  set done to false
  set attempts to 0
  repeat while (attempts < 3) and (not done)
  try
  mirror alias ...
  set done to true
  end try
  set attempts to attempts
  end repeat

  This code will retry the mirror command up to 3 times.

  The answer to 3. is no, there is no way to get a list of files uploaded by a mirror command. Thanks for that suggestion.

  You should not see a put error dialog when you are controlling Fetch with an AppleScript; instead, the error should be returned to AppleScript.

  I hope this answers your questions. I would encourage you to send a note to bugs at fetchsoftworks dot com with the subject "beta test", so that you can try a new version of Fetch that we are currently testing. I think you will find it an improvement.

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 14 years ago #

• jtzeng Member

  I just check an I have two messages from last nights attempt. I was going to send the screen capture but don't know how.

  Fetch Window:
  Fetch could not get the current folder because the FTP Server dropped the connection.

  Applescript Window:
  Fetch could not get the file list because there was a timeout trying to establish a passive mode data connection.

  Originally posted by JimMatthews:

  Hi,

  The answer to 1. and 2. is yes. To do this you would replace each of your mirror statements with something like this:

  set done to false
  set attempts to 0
  repeat while (attempts < 3) and (not done)
  try
  mirror alias ...
  set done to true
  end try
  set attempts to attempts
  end repeat

  This code will retry the mirror command up to 3 times.

  The answer to 3. is no, there is no way to get a list of files uploaded by a mirror command. Thanks for that suggestion.

  You should not see a put error dialog when you are controlling Fetch with an AppleScript; instead, the error should be returned to AppleScript.

  I hope this answers your questions. I would encourage you to send a note to bugs at fetchsoftworks dot com with the subject "beta test", so that you can try a new version of Fetch that we are currently testing. I think you will find it an improvement.

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 14 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  Hi,

  I think you should contact us and ask for the beta version. It should help.

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 14 years ago #