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Re: Question on the preschedulecmd

2005-02-16 12:15:03
Subject: Re: Question on the preschedulecmd
From: "Robertson, Louis" <louis.robertson AT BEARINGPOINT DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:59:38 -0000
Eric,

I have been running the same setup on my servers for a few years and have not 
had a problem with TSM backups running prior to the presched finishing.  The 
only issue I have run into is that on some servers I had the ntbackup hang 
waiting a response form the console. What I found was that for some reason the 
backup file I was creating was not automatically overwriting the previous day's 
file and was waiting for a response to overwrite the old file.  It only 
happened on two servers but as a result I ended up adding a line to my presched 
batch file on all my servers to remove the old file before I began that night's 
 backup.  Below is the text from my presched batch file:

rem 
***************************************************************************************
rem **  The following lines were added on 17 Feb 2004 to address problems       
             **
rem **  with ntbackup hanging on an overwrite question.                         
             **
rem 
***************************************************************************************

rem Delete system state backup file

del c:\srvutils\systemstate.bkf

rem 
***************************************************************************************
rem ** End of addition for deletion of system state backup files                
                         **
rem 
***************************************************************************************

ntbackup backup systemstate /f "C:\Srvutils\Systemstate.bkf" /m copy

Hope this helps.

Louis

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Jones, Eric J
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 4:13 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Question on the preschedulecmd


Good afternoon.
I'm at the point where I've tested backing up the SYSTEM STATE with NTBACKUP, 
having TSM backup the drives and exclude the SYSTEM OBJECT, then rebuild the 
system, restore with TSM and use NTBACKUP to restore the SYSTEM STATE.   I have 
a batch file to kick off NTBACKUP for the SYSTEM STATE backup and want to use 
the "preschedulecmd" to run this before TSM scans for changed files and does 
the scheduled backup.  I need to make sure the batch file completes before TSM 
does the backup.  Would there be any situation that TSM might start backing up 
before the prescheduledcmd completes?  I've read in the readbooks and it says 
that
"The preschedulecmd option specifies a command that the ADSM client program 
should process before it runs a schedule."
Client running Win2K SP3 with TSM 5.2.2
Server running AIX 5.2 with TSM 5.2.2

Just checking before rolling out to all the Win2K servers.
Thanks for all the help.

Have a Great Day,
Eric Jones
> *  eric.j.jones AT lmco DOT com
> *:   607-751-4133
Cell : 607-972-7621

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