Pause/Restart VisualHub & Transmission for SD! backup

[minckster]

Originally Posted by gcoghill

How does one run these from the Super Duper options? Using the shell script option and choosing the AppleScripts saved as applications?

Yes.

Now a long answer, to avoid problems or gotchas.

From the main SuperDuper! screen, select Options > Advanced > check "Run shell script before copy starts" and enter the path to the script. See attached image.

Note that my newest Pause script makes SD! wait until Turbo.264 is done, because T.264 doesn't have a pause feature. The script then pauses VisualHub, Handbrake, and Transmission. The Resume script restarts VisualHub, Handbrake, and Transmission. Both scripts have worked great for many months without fail.

I saved both AppleScripts as "Applications" in Script Editor (File > Save As). Watch out for the options, in particular "Startup Screen" which should be off.

A silly gotcha: Once you've saved the script as an application, you have to open Script Editor and then go to File > Open to edit the application.

Also, my scripts use "GUI Scripting", so you'll need to enable that in the "AppleScript Utility" if your scripts use 'tell application "System Events"' and something that's -- well, GUI (keystroke,...).