Command Line version of SD!?

[RobLewis]

Have you given any consideration to a command line version of SuperDuper!?

It would be nice to be able to log in remotely using Terminal and initiate a backup job.

[dnanian]

Not something that would likely be terribly popular, Rob, but it is something that we've considered.

[swivet]

If the goal is to have SD! do a scripted backup, can't you trigger that from the Terminal with:

$ open -a SuperDuper! /Applications/SuperDuper\!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy\ Scripts/MyDeluxeBackupScript.dset

That should handle a lot of real-world occasions.

The actual pathname would depend on the name of your script and where you had stashed it, but you get the idea.

/swv

[dnanian]

No, that won't work. You can write an AppleScript to load some settings and run them (after all, that's what the scheduler does), but it's not headless.

[swivet]

Wokay. VNC then, for when you are off somewhere and just feeling spontaneous.
/swv