I have several laptops that are not always connected to our network. I'd like to have them backup, once a day, if the laptops are connected. Scheduling does not work because there is not a definite t
Author: Gerald Wichmann <gwichman AT ZANTAZ DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:45:56 -0700
You could set the laptop up to using polling mode instead of prompted.. have it poll every hour or something (default is 12 hours). then create a schedule for the laptops that has a window of 12 hour
Author: Justin Bleistein <justin.bleistein AT SUNGARD DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:02:17 -0400
I don't know of any TSM integrated features for this but it's an interesting concept. You could defiantly write a batch file (I'm assuming the laptops are running windows), and put it in the autoexec
Author: "Cowperthwaite, Eric" <eric.cowperthwaite AT EDS DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:00:06 -0500
Assuming that you can do this in a Windows script (easy to do in a UNIX shell script), you can write a very simple script that creates a file in the Tivoli root of the client. The name of the file in
Hi, looks like any scripting ability on laptop would help you. There are plenty of ways to do it, I swear for such trivial task since 1992 on JPSoft command processors, but there are cshells for Wind
Author: "Prather, Wanda" <Wanda.Prather AT JHUAPL DOT EDU>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:16:13 -0400
That may not work if users are only connected for very brief periods of time, if you are using randomization. (I've been burned by this one, too.) Because if the window is 12 hours, the server may gi
Author: Gerald Wichmann <gwichman AT ZANTAZ DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:49:05 -0700
So why not just set the randomization parameter to 0? It only affects clients using polling scheduling mode so chances are good it wouldn't affect the rest of his systems (though I suppose his entire