Sim,

I think you may be going about this the wrong way.

By scheduling clients that you have very little control but responsibility
is firmly resting with you.  I expect you'll be chasing your tail most of
the time in getting those clients backed up.

I encountered this with my previous company.  I simply left a shortcut (dsmc
i or similar) on the desktop.  The responsibility is then with the
user/owner who simply has to run the backup whenever they please (ie: lunch
times and during meetings).

All you have to do is run a daily/weekly report to keep track of clients
that have not backed up.  You can then use this to gently remind the owners
that a backup has not completed in X number of days.

Regards

Rizwan

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simeon Johnston [SMTP:simeonuj AT INDIVISUALLEARNING DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 4:52 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Understanding schedules
>
> I'm trying to setup client schedules for several offsight laptops (win2k
> 5.1 server/client).
> I setup the schedule and associate everyone to it.  It all looks good.
> Except they keep missing the scheduled window.  These laptops have no
> set time (and I don't want to have a set time) that they are online.
> I left the duration at 1 hour and the period is 1 day.  It starts at
> 6am.
> What I'd like is a schedule that will run all day and whenever the
> client is connected start backing up right then.
>
> A few questions that have been bugging me.
> Is there a way to query the clients schedule?  When it will attempt to
> backup, or the schedule it got from the server?
> What exactly does the duration option do?  Is this how long the client
> has to start a backup session?  If so then I should set it to something
> like 5min.  If it's just how long the client has to login and GET the
> schedule then I should have this running all day (24hours).
>
> I think I'm just very confused.  Any help would be appreciated.
>
> sim