Dan,

I would like to see the script.

Thank You,

Stefan Dusedau
infoWorks
A Viacom technology service
(212)258-6739
stefan.dusedau AT viacom DOT com <mailto:stefan.dusedau AT viacom DOT com>


                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Dan Giles [mailto:Dan_Giles AT MANULIFE DOT COM]
                Sent:   Wednesday, February 24, 1999 5:16 PM
                To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
                Subject:        Re: Informing clients when their backup is
completed

                I have some pearl scripts that monitor the nightly backups
then generates a
                report at 07:00, or when the backups complete, whichever
comes first. The
                report gets mailed to a central Notes database that anyone
can read. You
                can send to individuals as well by setting up the UNIX mail
aliases.

                Let me know if you'd like a look at these and I'll send them
to you.

                Dan Giles
                Application Specialist
                Manulife Financial, Corporate
                Phone: 416-926-3549 Fax: 416-926-5234





                From: Winters Eric-a1422c <a1422c AT EUROPE.MOT DOT COM> on
99/02/24 04:23 PM GMT

                Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
<ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>

                To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
                cc:    (bcc: ADSM)
                Subject:  Informing clients when their backup is completed




                We would like our clients (MAC and NT users) to have an easy
way of knowing
                if their scheduled backup has completed successfully. The
product they have
                been using, Retrospect, would cause a window to pop up once
the backup had
                completed. I don't want users to have to read the
dsmsched.log to determine
                if it worked or not.
                Naturally I can see centrally which schedules succeeded or
failed, but we
                would like the user to also be informed.

                Has anyone any experience of this? How do others manage
failed backups in
                large groups of users?

                Thanks,

                Eric Winters
                Corporate Computer Services EMEA
                Munich
                Germany