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mantronix 02-20-2007 05:56 PM

What mechanism is used for making scheduled backups happen in SuperDuper?
 
Hi. What mechanism is used for making scheduled backups happen in SuperDuper?

I recently set SuperDuper to do a scheduled backup every Sunday at 1am. I then entered my admin account name and password. Because I like to know what's going on, I began searching for exactly what changed on my system to make scheduled runs of SuperDuper possible.

I looked in the admin account's crontab. Nope, no changes there.
I looked in root's crontab. Nope.
I looked in /Library/LaunchDaemons. Nope.
I looked in /Library/LaunchAgents. Nope.
I looked in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons. Nope.
I looked in /System/Library/LaunchAgents. Nope.
I looked in ~/Library/LaunchDaemons. Nope.
I looked in ~/Library/LaunchAgents. Nope.

So, having looked in all these places, where does SuperDuper store its launch info? Thanks.

(I am a paid user of SuperDuper.)

dnanian 02-20-2007 06:05 PM

It's in the crontab. Try
Code:

crontab -l
in Terminal.

mantronix 02-20-2007 07:02 PM

Thanks, Dave. I looked in every crontab except my own. :)

Now, how does SuperDuper handle the password part? Where is it storing my admin credentials so that it doesn't have to ask me for them at 1am on Sunday? I did not see anything related to SuperDuper when I looked in the Keychain app.

Thanks.

(I am a paid user of SuperDuper.)

dnanian 02-20-2007 08:29 PM

It authorizes an agent in our application bundle. We never see or store the password.

mantronix 02-21-2007 05:41 PM

Thanks again, Dave. Interesting. So the authorization step in SuperDuper changes a system setting to allow an agent in the app bundle to proceed with the backup.

What files in my system are changed as a result of the authorization?

Thanks.

(I am a paid user of SuperDuper.)

dnanian 02-21-2007 05:48 PM

As I said, it's inside our application bundle. No "system files" are changed at all.


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