I can't speak to Mac or Linux, but Windows has the shutdown.exe program. So you could easily write a script to launch the client backup, then run shutdown.exe. Trivial example of a hypothetical script called backup_and_shutdown.cmd:
cd /d "c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient" dsmc i > dsmc.out 2>&1 shutdown -s Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManager.html The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence. "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> wrote on 08/16/2006 07:01:38 PM: > One way we are looking to save energy is to turn computers off at > night. As we typically run backups at night, this presents a problem. We > would like to see a way that users could initiate a backup/auto-shutdown as > they leave work for the day so that their computers aren't left on all > night. We estimate that the energy savings would be substantial. Some > other backup products provide this capability. > > Has anyone else figured out a way to do this with TSM on Windows, MacOS, > and Linux? > > Has anyone else wished that TSM had a way to do this? > > ..Paul
