ADSM-L

Re: [ADSM-L] Green issue: How to avoid leaving clients on all night

2009-04-21 21:15:25
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Green issue: How to avoid leaving clients on all night
From: Dwight Cook <cookde AT COX DOT NET>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:14:33 -0500
Why not just give them a warning/mandate that if they are working late, they
need to go out under services and disable the TSM client scheduler until
they are done working, then start the scheduler before leaving.



-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Roger Deschner
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 7:55 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Green issue: How to avoid leaving clients on all night

We're getting requests from a number of people who have their desktop
computers (mix of Macs and Windows XP/Vista) backed up to TSM, for a way
to avoid leaving them on all night.

The issue is simple energy conservation. Even with the monitor off, and
the disk drives spun down, a live PC still consumes quite a bit of
electricity. If you put it into either Hibernate or Standby mode, the
TSM Scheduler cannot run the backup.

We had thought of setting a POSTSCHEDULECOMMAND of "shutdown", but that
has a severe problem. What if you were working late, because of an
urgent project, and backup ran. Your computer would then shut down
without saving what you were working on, and precisely because it was
urgent enough for you to be working on it late, this would be very
valuable work that would be lost.

Has anybody figured out a way around this basic problem?

Roger Deschner      University of Illinois at Chicago     rogerd AT uic DOT edu
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