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query event will NOT tell you if your backup was successful.
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This is true only if the schedule definition launches a script, i.e. DEF
SCH mydomain myschedule ACTION=COMMAND OBJECTS="myscript", and the script
contains commands that run asynchronously; in that case, TSM has no way to
track the actions taken within the script. It can only say, "the script
was launched successfully". In short, the success or failure of the
command depends on the return code issued from the script.

For scheduled TSM operations (i.e. ACTION=INCREMENTAL), you should not
have any problems determining success or failure of the operation. For
ACTION=COMMAND operations where the command

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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Mark Bertrand <Mark.Bertrand AT USUNWIRED DOT COM>
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We also used "query event * * begindate=today-1 enddate=today ex=yes"
until
I learned that this does not report on clients that were or were not
backed
up successfully, this ONLY reports on if the script or schedule was
successful. To quote straight from the h q event page "Use this command to
check whether schedules were processed successfully."

I will not go into a rant about this, just learn from my mistake, query
event will NOT tell you if your backup was successful.