Retrospect Client CLI status via retroclient

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To access the status of the Retrospect Client using a command-line interface (CLI), you can use the -parms command on Windows, Mac, and Linux versions of Retrospect Client:

./retroclient -parms

ProcessArgs: client is running set parms

Parameter stateSig has value 0x53436667

Parameter firstVers has value 0x201

Parameter curVers has value 0x201

Parameter totalSize has value 6120

Parameter readonly has value 0

Parameter restricted has value 0

Parameter notifyAfter has value 0

Parameter notifyNoBackup has value 1

Parameter notifyNumDays has value 7

Parameter sarFlags has value 3

Parameter name has value MacBook Pro

Parameter keyValue has value 680698504

Parameter keyHash has value 4567040

Parameter deferral has value 0

Parameter loglevel has value 0x1

Parameter lastBackupMonth has value 0

Parameter lastBackupDay has value 0

Parameter lastBackupYear has value 0

Parameter hideMenu has value 0

Parameter uiStateFlags has value 0

For example, if you want to check on whether the client has been logged in by a Retrospect server, you can check the sarFlags value for kSarFixed:

enum eSarFlags

{

kSarReady = (1<<0),

kSarPresent = (1<<1),

kSarFixed = (1<<2),

};

You can also get the last backup date from the output as well as a long list of other settings.

Last Update: March 17, 2022