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HardwareGrowler » Time Machine Notifications #483

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Given HwG's system-encompassing nature, it makes sense to have Time Machine 
notifications in there as well.

Peter Hosey already made a small utility that does this, with code available:
http://boredzo.org/time-machine-growler/

Original issue reported on code.google.com by geo...@growl.info on 16 May 2012 at 3:38

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Original comment by ch...@growl.info on 16 May 2012 at 3:47

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
We can talk to Peter about using his Time Machine Growler 
(https://bitbucket.org/boredzo/time-machine-growler/overview) for the basis of 
a new module for HWGrowl 2.0.  It relies on ASL, and there are a couple 
problems with that, first is its fragile, if apple at some point changes what 
gets logged when time machine starts/finishes, it will break.  Second is that 
ASL relies on a temp exception entitlement for the log file.

10.7 added the command line utility tmutil, but it won't let us check if a 
backup is currently happening, only that one has happened.

Original comment by dan...@growl.info on 16 May 2012 at 9:19

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
For now, this is being dropped from HWGrowler 2.0 due to the cpu usage issue.  
Flagging for now as won't fix, since apple neither provides a way to get at 
this info directly, or an efficient way to ask the log for it.  Its a nice 
idea, and we might revisit in the future.

Original comment by dan...@growl.info on 16 Jul 2012 at 8:04