Yes, IBM does have a ways to go with the Tivoli Storage Manager client
for Mac OS X. It does work, and the last couple updates have taken care
of very critical problems. The major problem that remains is that the
Scheduler (which is the agent that communicates with the server and
facilitates scheduled backups) is an interactive application and cannot
run in the background. This means that you have to be logged in at the
console as an admin user in order for the Scheduler to work. If this is
the type of machine where there's only one or two admins, and you're
comfortable using something like a screensaver password to protect the
console, then TSM can work quite well. The reason for this issue is
that IBM essentially carbonized the old Mac OS version, keeping the
single user paradigm. The client is being completely rewritten by IBM,
and a version that has a scheduler capable of running as a background
process will be available this year.

Jim Sporer


At 04:00 PM 1/13/2003 +0000, you wrote:

Hi TSMers

I've just installed the latest client release for a Mac OSX machine. I can
run backups/restores no problem and can run the scheduler manually. When I
run the scheduler as a daemon though, the dsmsched.log file shows that the
daemon contacted the server for the next schedule, but then it says
'Scheduler stopped'. Is this correct? I would expect to see something like
'Schedule will be refreshed in 1 hour'.

Anyone out there have experience with the OSX clients?

Thanks

Farren Minns - John Wiley & Sons Ltd