In article <OF90D3FD53.584C2779-ON85256AA5.0013FE60 AT raleigh.ibm DOT com>, 
Andrew
Raibeck <araibeck AT US.TIVOLI DOT COM> says:
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>A couple of ideas that come immediately to mind:
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>- Start the TSM operation, then lock the keyboard (rather than log off).
>If this system is shared by other users, this probably won't work out very
>well. But for a personal workstation, it should suffice.

If you have terminal services installed you can have more then one
user logged on. With W2k you able to set up 2 sessions with the base
product.

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>- Use the TSM scheduler to schedule the restore operation.
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>Regards,
>
>Andy
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>Andy Raibeck
>IBM Tivoli Systems
>Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
>e-mail: araibeck AT us.ibm DOT com
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>The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
>The command line is your friend.
>"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.
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>Thomas Denier <Thomas.Denier AT MAIL.TJU DOT EDU>
>Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>08/10/2001 12:55
>Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
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>        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
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>        Subject:        Background dsm under Windows NT
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>One of the Windows NT administrators here had some trouble with a
>restore to a Windows NT 4 system with a 3.7.0.0 TSM client. He started
>up the GUI client, set up a restore, watched a couple of hundred
>megabytes of data come back, and logged off, confidently expecting
>the restore to continue in his absence. The following morning he
>discovered that the restore was terminated at the same or nearly the
>same time as he logged off. He asked me whether there is any way to
>have a restore continue after the user who started it logs off. I
>could approximate the result he has in mind by starting a command
>line restore from the central scheduler (assuming he is not using
>any of the GUI capabilities that do not have command line counterparts).
>I have not thought of any way to get exactly the behavior he wants.
>Is this possible?