> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Smith [mailto:tsmith AT PHREAKER DOT NET] 
> Sent: vrijdag 11 juli 2003 13:32
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Polling or prompted?
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> Just wanted to check...  I guess the best way of being sure 
> that a schedule
> runs within a certain time window is to set the duration on 
> the server and
> have the client set to "prompted".  Is there any way to do 
> this with the
> polling method?  Or if I use polling, does the client simply 
> contact the
> server every XX hours?

In polling mode the client contacts the server every X number of
hours to get the start of it's backup window.
You can define X with the QUERYSCHedperiod parameter in
dsm.sys.

Regards,

Alexander