Actually, I do have an admin schedule running "update volume"
successfully on a regular basis.  Maybe some older version wouldn't, but
TSM 3.7.2 does it fine.

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> If you have a unix box somewhere I'd do this from there other wise you will
> need some scheduling software on NT to perform administrative command line
> functions to perform this, I don't believe that an administrative scheduled
> event is allowed to be an "update volume * acc=unavail" or "update vol blah
> acc=readw"
> and I know you can't make an administrative command perform a macro so it
> looks like you can't use adsm's automation to perform this activity.
> (which I think is OK because this is getting really wierd on the activity)
> but you could set up cron jobs under aix to perform things like
> dsmadmc -serv=blah -id=blah -pass=blah upd vol blah acc=readw
> or
> dsmadmc -serv=blah -id=blah -pass=blah upd vol blah acc=unavail
> on specific days of the week...
>
> > ----------
> > From:         Andy Yeung[SMTP:andyy AT REALVISION.COM DOT HK]
> > Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> > Sent:         Wednesday, April 05, 2000 8:52 AM
> > To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject:      Help in schedule mount volumes
> >
> > Dear all,
> >     I used ADSM version 3.0.2 in NT, I set 6 schedule for backup the
> > data each day, i.e. schedule 1 for backup monday, schedule 2 for
> > tuesday,........schedule 6 for sat. & sun. The following command I used
> > for each schedule:
> >
> > Define schedule dom1 sine1 Description="Database for monday"
> > action=selective objects="d:\program\*.*""d:\data\*.*" priority=5
> > startdate=03/01/2000 starttime=20:00:00 duration=3 durunits=hours
> > period=1 perunits=days dayofweek=monday
> >
> >     The above is for monday, and the other is just like above, now, I
> > wanna put the data into specific tape, i.e. tape 1 for monday, tape2 for
> > tuesday........tape6 for sat & sun. And I plan to set 2 more schedule
> > for each day, one for available the separate volume & one for
> > unavailable the volume, i.e. At 1st, I unavailable all the volume, and
> > available one volume(tape) before each schedule start.
> >
> >     Also, I wanna configure 6 more schedule which start at the 4th weeks
> > for migrate the data in each volume(tape). For the schedule, I wanna
> > move the data into the disk and move back to the tape, so that each tape
> > keep 3 backup sequential.
> >
> >     Now, my problem is I don't know how to configure the schedule for
> > available/unavailable each volume(tape), is that possible? Also, is that
> > possible for the above method?
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Andy Yeung
> >

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Mr. Lindsay Morris
Mr. Lindsay Morris
Gresham Enterprise Storage
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