How to mountain AFP for backup target?

[Dewdman42]

ok, using USB let me do what you said. It created the launchd entry, which I look at, this entry seemed to indicate the following script get called:

~/Library/Application Support/SuperDuper!/Scheduled Copies/Backup on Mount.scpt

This appears to be a sym link to a generic script found in your application bundle

Backup on Mount.scpt -> /Applications/Utilities/Backup/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Backup on Mount.scpt

Having a look at that generic script, I think the following line is probably the line I would need to call if I want to manually launch a backup job myself from launchd:

do shell script "env IMMEDIATE=YES open " & quoted form of POSIX path of (((scheduleFile as string) & ":Copy Job.app") as alias)

which works out essentially to calling this from the command line from within the folder where the scheduled script exists:

env IMMEDIATE=yes open Copy\ Job.app

Here's the question though, I don't know how to create this copy job to my network share without actually scheduling it. But I don't want SD to schedule it, I want to schedule it so that I can manually boot the AFP volume first. If I remove it from the schedule, then this copy job applet is removed and I can't launch it manually. if I leave it scheduled here, then it will be called twice, one of the times manually by me and one time by SD, which may or may not work depending on if the backup volume is currently mounted. Chicken or the egg problem.

How about if I modify:

Copy\ Job.applescript

to mount the volume, will that be ok? Any other suggestions?

If you had a way to provide a pre backup script that gets called BEFORE you attempt to check for the dest volume, then this would be a lot easier.