Hi,

we have 300+ nodes on our tsm servers which have to do their backups nightly. 
Schedules should be spread through the whole night but I couldn't find a really 
good way yet how to do that. Currently I try to start ten schedules at most 
quarterly. Looking at backup logs and sessions I can see that there are quite 
some nodes idle waiting for the TSM server to serv nodes' requests.
How do people time their schedules? Are there any additional tools which help 
in timing schedules (reporting/ spreading)? How can I improve timing of 
schedules? Did anybody try to use tsm server database (sql, odbc) in order to 
get detailed information about timing of schedules and based on that renew the 
start time?


Thanks,

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