Steve,

We backup our large OS/2 file servers using separate ADSM nodes for each
drive (C:& D: are backed up together, E: is backed up separately, so is F:,
etc.).  We build separate OPT files for each node and place them in a
subdirectory of the ADSM directory; each node's log files get stored there,
too.

We place the following commands in STARTUP.CMD:

'START "C&D DRIVE BACKUP" /MIN C:\ADSM\MULTISCH CDDRIVE'
'START "E DRIVE BACKUP" /MIN C:\ADSM\MULTISCH EDRIVE'
'START "F DRIVE BACKUP" /MIN C:\ADSM\MULTISCH FDRIVE'

MULTISCH.CMD looks like this:

/**REXX**/
ARG SUBDIR
'SET DSM_CONFIG=C:\ADSM\'SUBDIR'\DSM.OPT'
'SET DSM_LOG=C:\ADSM\'SUBDIR
SAY 'SUBDIR=' SUBDIR
'DSMC SCH  -PASSWORD=xxxx'

The DSM.OPT file is identical for each node except for the following
statements:

  NETBIOSNAME    ACFSxxxxxxCD or E or F
  NODENAME               xxxxxxxx_CD or _E or _F
  DOMAIN C:,D:   or E:  or F:
  SCHEDLOGNAME           C:\ADSM\CDDRIVE\DSMSCH.LOG or \EDRIVE\DSMSCH.LOG,
etc.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Dennis Schaffer
Mutual of Omaha


To:       ADSM-L @ VM.MARIST.EDU
cc:        (bcc: Dennis Schaffer)
From:     swhite @ OCSLINK.COM
Date:     08/19/97 09:36:42 AM EST
Subject:  scheduler




hi,

on an adsm client can i start multiple schedulers (in the startup folder
on an os/2 machine for instance) to stagger a few different backups to
kick off at say 20 min. intervals, each backing up different drives on
the same node?

thanks alot,
steve