From: Peter Thomas on 06/05/97 05:20 PM
Great.. Tha's what I'll do then; I doubt I'll use 12 hours , probably go
with around a 6 hour window.

Peter Thomas
Manulife Financial
Phone: (416)963-7371
Fax: (416)926-5454




From: mjc @ WAYLOO.TCS.TULANE.EDU on 05/06/97 03:45 PM

Please respond to ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU

To:   ADSM-L @ VM.MARIST.EDU
cc:    (bcc: ADSM)
Subject:  Re: ADSM / Scheduled Backups




>
> From: Peter Thomas on 06/05/97 02:16 PM
>
> If I have a client machine that has a backup scheduled to happen at say
> 11:00 PM, the backup commences but for some reason the server "crashes"
> before the backup completes, is there any way of having ADSM "reschedule"
> that backup so it runs again upon completion?
>
> Right now, I have the clients operating in SCHEDMODE POLLING, with TCP/IP
> as the communications protocol, a Query Schedule period of 1 hour. The
> Scheduled events are defined to have a 1 hour duration and occur daily.
>
> What can I do to ensure that if the client crashes during the execution
of > the event and restarts itself (along with the scheduler) that the
event is > retriggered?
>

How long does the backup take?  If the backup fails at any time during the
window (Actual start + duration), it will attempt to restart until the
duration has expired.  So, if your duration is less time than the backups
normally take, then you will likely simply fail, rather than restart.

I have all of my nightly backups set with a duration of AT LEAST 12 hours,
so that they will retry at least as long as it takes for me to arrive back
at work the next morning...

Mark

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