Configuring Retrospect to auto launch on newer Linux systems

Resources

For the following supported Linux systems, extra steps may be needed to get the Retrospect 18 client and earlier to auto launch after the system gets rebooted. For version 19 clients we now use a systemctl .service file and the client will automatically auto launch after reboots.

For the following supported Linux systems, extra steps may be needed to get the Retrospect client to auto launch after the system gets rebooted.

Ubuntu 15.10, 16.04, and 17.04

From a terminal prompt run the following commands:

sudo update-rc.d rcl defaults

sudo update-rc.d rcl enable

SUSE 11.4

From a terminal prompt run the following command:

sudo chkconfig rcl on

 Suse 12.2 and Debian 9

These two leverage systemd to manage services and for the Retrospect client to be able to autolaunch, you will need to create what is call a "Unit" file.

To create a custom Unit file do the following while running as root or using sudo.

1. Run the following in a terminal prompt:
2. touch /etc/systemd/system/rcl.service

chmod 664 /etc/systemd/system/rcl.service

1. Open the rcl.service file and add the following text.
2. [Unit]
3. Description=Retrospect Client

After=syslog.service

[Service]

ExecStart=/usr/local/retrospect/client/rcl start

ExecStop=/usr/local/retrospect/client/rcl stop

Type=forking

Restart=always

[Install]

WantedBy=default.target

1. Run the following in a terminal prompt:
2. systemctl daemon-reload

systemctl enable rcl.service

1. If the service is not started, run the following in a terminal prompt:

systemctl start rcl.service

Last Update: January 20, 2023