Author: Bill Boyer <bill.boyer AT VERIZON DOT NET>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 13:14:17 -0400
I have a client that wants to do monthly backups on the last day of the month. A co-worker did some testing and creating a schedule for say 5/31/3002 with PERU=MONTH. The June event gets scheduled fo
Author: "Ford, Phillip" <phillip.ford AT SPCORP DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 13:27:18 -0400
If you are doing it inside TSM I can give you an approach. I am not good with SQL so you or someone on this list could help. You could run a schedule everyday and have a select statement in it like t
Author: Eddie Jones <Eddie_Jones AT CANADALIFEUS DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 13:29:37 -0400
I have some of my month end archives running on the last day of the month also. I have a start date of 05/31/2003 or any previous month that contains 31 days. When a month end falls on the 30th the m
Author: Kent Monthei <Kent.J.Monthei AT GSK DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 13:54:05 -0400
You might be able to develop & schedule a little script which a) does a 'delete schedule' b) goes through a loop that performs a 'define schedule' for the 31st/30th/29th/28th (in that order) c) after
Author: Curtis Stewart <curtis.stewart AT ATTBI DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 22:10:03 -0500
We've just decided to get rid of the whole TSM scheduler for the most part and go with an external schedular for TSM backups (AutoSys). It fixes the whole "last day of the month, or quarter or whatev
Author: "Mr. Lindsay Morris" <lmorris AT SERVERGRAPH DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 03:24:41 -0400
Curtis, if I may ask: how can you monitor backup status (ie success or failure of all your nodes) if you use autosys? -- Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6138 ext 105
Author: Alex Paschal <AlexPaschal AT FREIGHTLINER DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:24:59 -0700
Hi, Lindsay. I would suggest also monitoring backup status using a select statement to pull out filespaces that didn't complete backup within x amount of time, even if you use the TSM scheduler. This
Author: "Mr. Lindsay Morris" <lmorris AT SERVERGRAPH DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 14:53:46 -0400
Thanks, Alex - brilliant idea - and that's how Servergraph already does it. We give the TSM admins visibility into the status, checked daily, fo how old the backups are. So they need not care about s