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Re: Background dsm under Windows NT

2001-08-10 19:30:38
Subject: Re: Background dsm under Windows NT
From: kelil kenzu <kelilkenzu AT HOTMAIL DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 19:30:38 -0400

One thing that comes in mind is to write a batch file to do a restore and schedule this batch file to execute with an "AT" cmd.  This way, the cmd will run as a service and it wont require any user to be logged in.

Kelil
>From: Thomas Denier
>Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Background dsm under Windows NT
>Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 15:55:21 -0400
>
>One of the Windows NT administrators here had some trouble with a
>restore to a Windows NT 4 system with a 3.7.0.0 TSM client. He started
>up the GUI client, set up a restore, watched a couple of hundred
>megabytes of data come back, and logged off, confidently expecting
>the restore to continue in his absence. The following morning he
>discovered that the restore was terminated at the same or nearly the
>same time as he logged off. He asked me whether there is any way to
>have a restore continue after the user who started it logs off. I
>could approximate the result he has in mind by starting a command
>line restore from the central scheduler (assuming he is not using
>any of the GUI capabilities that do not have command line counterparts).
>I have not thought of any way to get exactly the behavior he wants.
>Is this possible?


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