Time Machine notification with Growl

Cron job? Shouldn’t it be a LaunchAgent since cron is depricated?

I tried this script, and it worked wonderfully, however it only worked once. Subsequent backups have not been shown. Do you have any ideas of why this would be? Thanks.

I used the launchd

I don’t see any errors, and it actually seems to be working now.

I used the above script and it worked great, but I found it pumped out more information than I needed, so I added some code to exclude some log statements that seemed redundant.

[code lang="applescript"] set consoletext to do shell script “syslog -F ‘$Message’ -k Sender /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd -k Time ge -5m” set modText to trimparagraphs(consoletext) on trimparagraphs(thistext) set the paragraphlist to every paragraph of thistext set the newlist to {} set path_count to 0

repeat with i from 1 to the count of paragraphs of thistext set thisparagraph to item i of the paragraphlist if thisparagraph contains “automatic scheduler” then else if thisparagraph contains “No pre-backup thinning needed:” then else if thisparagraph contains “Trusting backup” then else if thisparagraph contains “getting cat info” then else if thisparagraph contains “Mounting disk image /Volumes/Backups/” then else if thisparagraph contains “Starting post-backup thinning” then else if thisparagraph contains “Trusting backup” then else if pathcount > 0 then — do nothing else if thisparagraph contains “Disk Image Mounted” then set the end of newlist to “Disk Image Mounted” set the end of newlist to this_paragraph

  else if this_paragraph contains "rebuild path cache" then
      set path_count to 1
      set the end of new_list to this_paragraph
  else
      set the end of new_list to this_paragraph
  end if

end repeat

set AppleScript’s text item delimiters to return set mod2 to new_list as string set AppleScript’s text item delimiters to “” return mod2

end trim_paragraphs

if modText is not “” then tell application “GrowlHelperApp” set the allNotificationsList to {”Notification”} set the enabledNotificationsList to {”Notification”}

register as application ¬
  "Time Machine Notification" all notifications allNotificationsList ¬
    default notifications enabledNotificationsList ¬
    icon of application "Time Machine"

notify with name ¬
  "Notification" title ¬
  "Time Machine" description modText ¬
  application name "Time Machine Notification"

end tell

end if [/code]

I also just used Lingon to set it to run every 5 mins. Thanks a bunch for the script, it was driving me crazy not having updates on the TM status.

I just used codes tags on the above, but it seems to have had its way with the formatting. Sorry about that.

Thanks, for cleaning it up, but it’s still quite messed with html tags and such, so I posted a copy at http://fredandtanya.com/files/GrowlTimeMachineNotification.scpt

GrowlHelperApp is mentioned in the script however its not found on my system. What was used to load Launchd with the log ’schedule’?

Hey, I’m not very good at the technical side of all this. I downloaded the script, just put it in my User folder, and then created the plist file and put it where you said I should. I then inputted that command into Terminal, and it acccepted it. But then, I tested it by running a back up, and no notification showed up. Clearly I’m missing an obvious step… can you tell what it is? I have Growl, so that’s not the problem…

Thanks so much.

Hey actually I fiddled around a bit and realised that I didn’t change the path. It’s now working perfectly (so great work!) Thanks so much.

hi, sorry to add a comment so late after the last, but i’m quite interested in this but need some help, hope it’s ok.

i’d love to have growl notifications for time machine but i have to admit that i know nothing about using scripts or registering cronjobs.

could someone please give me a simple step-by-step on what to do? i hate to sound like an idiot but i do need basically everything explaining to me about this.

Nicely done. I’ve got the .plist and growl notifications up and running swell on a 10.5.4 client machine. The Time Machine Notification app lists properly in the Growl Pref Pane and I enables the MailMe plug-in to receive email notifications. Ubür-sweet. However, practicing the identical installation technique I’ve hit a block installing on 10.5.4 Server. All looks correct but the Time Machine Notification app doesn’t appear in the Growl Apps list so I can’t configure it. Poo.

Any ideas if launchd performs vastly different in the server implementation?

Thanks

thanks christoph, but this hasn’t worked. after i do everything you said, this is what terminal says after the bash line:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3265/2796989366186fd592e2o.png

what do you think i could be doing wrong?

p.s. sorry about that dodgy link, not sure why only half of it is clickable. here’s a tiny url for it :) http://tinyurl.com/5zdtlo

i think i did, well, what i did at first was make the file in textedit then try and save into launchagents but it said access denied, so i saved it to desktop then dragged into launchagents.

here is a screenshot of the file, and the file shown in the launchagents folder in finder.

this might help :P http://tinyurl.com/6onawf

ok, thanks anyway.