Re: weird request for schedule

2006-07-03 Thread Richard Hammersley
Joe, This is an interesting problem. But, what is the goal of the customer regarding backups ? Disaster recovery, occasional file restores, regulatory requirements, or something else ? If one kills a backup run before it completes one does not have a backup of some stuff. Conceivably some

Fw: weird request for schedule

2006-06-03 Thread Nicholas Cassimatis
On the client, kill the scheduler service, then restart it. You also have to make sure the backup window for the scheduler is over before you restart the scheduler, or it will start again. I hope there's no critical data on this box, on the last filespace, or there could be some serious

Re: weird request for schedule

2006-06-02 Thread Richard Sims
Joe - One more approach is to employ a PRESchedulecmd to kick off a background process which will run alongside the dsmc and terminate it when its clock window runs out. In Unix, dsmc will terminate when it receives one of: SIGTERM, SIGHUP, SIGINT, SIGPWR, SIGQUIT, or SIGUSR2. (It will also

Re: weird request for schedule

2006-06-02 Thread Davignon, Edward
-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] weird request for schedule Hello, I have a customer who wants to run backup only during specific time window; from 10pm to 4am. That means when backup starts at 10pm, and runs until 4am, and even if at 4am there are more files to be backed up, he wants backup

Re: weird request for schedule

2006-06-02 Thread Joe Crnjanski
: 416-235-0265 Web: www.infinitynetwork.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 5:16 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: weird request for schedule You could probably script something

weird request for schedule

2006-06-01 Thread Joe Crnjanski
Hello, I have a customer who wants to run backup only during specific time window; from 10pm to 4am. That means when backup starts at 10pm, and runs until 4am, and even if at 4am there are more files to be backed up, he wants backup to stop and to be rescheduled for next backup cycle. Any ideas

Re: weird request for schedule

2006-06-01 Thread Len Boyle
len -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Crnjanski Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 4:21 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] weird request for schedule Hello, I have a customer who wants to run backup only during specific

Re: weird request for schedule

2006-06-01 Thread Andrew Raibeck
You could probably script something up that runs at 4am that does something like this: Use SELECT to identify sessions for this node, and create CANCEL SESSION commands. The output can be redirected to a file. Then use the dsmadmc MACRO command to run the commands in the file to which the output

Re: weird request for schedule

2006-06-01 Thread Bob Martoncik
Subject: [ADSM-L] weird request for schedule Hello, I have a customer who wants to run backup only during specific time window; from 10pm to 4am. That means when backup starts at 10pm, and runs until 4am, and even if at 4am there are more files to be backed up, he wants backup to stop

Re: weird request for schedule

2006-06-01 Thread Mark Stapleton
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 06/01/2006 03:39:46 PM: We have the same problem, just with a larger window. I do not know of a good solution from tsm, but if you hear of anything we would like to hear of it. We do not need for the backup to stop, but just to have almost

Re: weird request for schedule

2006-06-01 Thread Jay Cunningham
request for schedule Hello, I have a customer who wants to run backup only during specific time window; from 10pm to 4am. That means when backup starts at 10pm, and runs until 4am, and even if at 4am there are more files to be backed up, he wants backup to stop and to be rescheduled for next backup

Re: weird request for schedule

2006-06-01 Thread Schneider, Jim
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 3:21 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] weird request for schedule Hello, I have a customer who wants to run backup only during specific time window; from 10pm to 4am. That means when backup starts at 10pm, and runs until 4am, and even if at 4am

Re: weird request for schedule

2006-06-01 Thread Andrew Raibeck
to an background priority level. Thanks much len -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Crnjanski Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 4:21 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] weird request for schedule Hello, I have a customer who

Re: weird request for schedule

2006-06-01 Thread Len Boyle
] weird request for schedule Hi Len, Some nifty ideas, but non-trivial to implement. And I cannot make any kind of commitments in regard to adding new functionality. You (and others interested in such a thing) should consider opening a requirement for this type of functionality. If the demand

Re: weird request for schedule

2006-06-01 Thread Sung Y Lee
How about this, Setup normal backup TSM schedule to kick off at 10:00 pm. Run kill or command on cron or task manager to grep for dsmc process and kill and /or recycle every day at 4:00 am . Sung Y. Lee ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 06/01/2006 04:21:29 PM: Hello,