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Windows Service Capability

Adam Chandler

April 07, 2012 17:34

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I suggest that you enable the capability to run this as a Window's Service WITHOUT a user having to be logged in.  Having this capability on Windows Home Server 2011, Windows Server 2003/2008, etc., would help people who have these servers set up for personal pictures/video/backups/etc.  I tried to make it a scheduled task with admin rights, which launched at startup with no user, and it indeed does start the two services that are related to OpenDrive (OpenDrive_Tray & Opendrive_Session), but unfortunately, the services do not pick up on file system changes unless someone is logged in.

So, either make this a feature of the application OR fix the indexing criteria so that someone can set it up the way I mentioned above and actually have the services work.  Either way is acceptable in my book.

Otherwise, very happy with the service!  Looking forward to all future improvements!

Thanks for listening!!

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  Adam Chandler April 07, 2012 21:03

  Just an update here.  My technique above *appears* to work 80% of the time, but there is some instability over time.  I rebooted the server and everything is sync'ing now.  However, official support for this would be greatly appreciated so I don't have to hack this up anymore.  :-)

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  Ryan Gilmour April 11, 2012 16:37

  I second that one.  We've got multiple backup regimes and any time there's a power out or a server is rebooted we then have to manually log in to a console session just to resume our normal backups.

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  Adam Chandler April 11, 2012 16:42

  Ryan, thanks for the support.  If you can, click the "Like" button on this page to raise the rank.  Hopefully if enough folk like the suggestion they'll pick implement.

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  Ryan Gilmour April 11, 2012 18:14

  Sadly no "like" button on mobile version of this page, will try to hit that later.

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  David Moran February 14, 2013 18:22

  I chose opendrive because CrashPlan kept failing. Unfortunately, having to log in before the backup happens makes this solution all but completely useless. 

  Adam - Are you able to tell me how you setup the executables as a service? 

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  Admin February 22, 2013 06:58

  Option to run OpenDrive as a service for Windows application is already in our roadmap and scheduled for release in May 2013.

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  Samuel Yontz June 23, 2013 04:10

  How come this is not in place yet? It is past May.