> Yes, the domain is picked up before executing PRESCHEDULECMD...
I need to double-check this. But to get the desired behavior, my earler
suggestion still stands.
Regards,
Andy
Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development
Level 3 Team Lead
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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.
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 10/19/2007
12:49:35 PM:
> Hi John,
>
> Yes, the domain is picked up before executing PRESCHEDULECMD, hence the
> behavior you see. There is no TSM setting to change this.
>
> One alternative you could try is to define a schedule with
>
> ACTION=COMMAND OBJECTS="/opt/misd/bin/importPrdVg prdaok" PRIORITY=1
>
> Set the start time for this schedule at the same time as your backup
> schedule. Due to the higher priority, the ACTION=COMMAND schedule will
run
> first, mounting the file systems. Then the incremental schedule will
run.
>
> Note that the above is just a sketch of the idea, I assume you can take
it
> from here (if you wish to go this route).
>
> Regards,
>
> Andy
>
> Andy Raibeck
> IBM Software Group
> Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development
> Level 3 Team Lead
> Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
> Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com
>
> IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page:
> http://www.ibm.
> com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManager.html
>
> The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
> The command line is your friend.
> "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.
>
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 10/19/2007
> 11:59:43 AM:
>
> > Greetings,
> > I have a situation where the TSM client seems to be ignoring
> > some mounted filesystems.
> > I have a need to have a TSM preschedule command which imports
> > some volume groups and mounts their filesystems. (This data is an EMC
> > disk clone of another system, but that is immaterial).
> > Once the preschedule command mounts the filesystems, I run an
> > incremental of the system which should back up only those filesystems
> > that are the ones I just mounted, which happen to all be mounts behind
> > the same mount point /tsmprdaok. My include/exclude file is extremely
> > simple:
> >
> > exclude /.../*
> > include /tsmprdaok/.../*
> >
> > ( I know this will need to exclude other filesystems eventually, but
for
> > the sake of keeping it simple this is how it is for now.) When the
> > backup runs, it produces:
> >
> > Executing scheduled command now.
> > 10/18/07 17:45:12
> > Executing Operating System command or script:
> > /opt/misd/bin/importPrdVg prdaok
> > 10/18/07 17:45:29 Finished command. Return code is: 0
> > 10/18/07 17:45:29 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT BEGIN @27 10/18/07 17:42:38
> > 10/18/07 17:45:29 Incremental backup of volume '/'
> > 10/18/07 17:45:29 Incremental backup of volume '/usr'
> > 10/18/07 17:45:29 Incremental backup of volume '/var'
> > 10/18/07 17:45:29 Incremental backup of volume '/home'
> > 10/18/07 17:45:29 Incremental backup of volume '/opt'
> > 10/18/07 17:45:29 Incremental backup of volume '/opt/emctools'
> >
> > It does not list any of the filesystems (16 in all) that are mounted
by
> > the preschedule onto /tsmprdaok. Yes, I have verified that the
> > filesystems are really being mounted by issuing a 'df' while the
backup
> > is running.
> >
> > If I issue the preschedule command manually to mount the filesystems,
> > and then run a plain scheduled backup, it produces:
> >
> > Executing scheduled command now.
> > 10/19/07 13:50:42 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT BEGIN @28 10/19/07 13:49:05
> > 10/19/07 13:50:42 Incremental backup of volume '/'
> > 10/19/07 13:50:42 Incremental backup of volume '/usr'
> > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume '/var'
> > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume '/home'
> > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume '/opt'
> > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume '/opt/emctools'
> > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume '/tsmprdaok/epic'
> > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok/clarity'
> > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok/xfile'
> > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok03'
> > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok04'
> > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok05'
> > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok06'
> > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok07'
> > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok08'
> > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok09'
> > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok10'
> > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok01'
> > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok02'
> > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaokwta'
> > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaokjrn'
> > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaokaltjrn'
> >
> > What gives? Why does it work when I mount the filesystems before I
run
> > the incremental, but when the filesystems are mounted from inside a
> > preschedule command TSM ignores them?
> >
> > Asked another way, when does the TSM scheduler look at the OS and
decide
> > what filesystems exist? Does this happen before or after the
> > preschedule runs? Is there any way to control this behavior?
> >
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > John D. Schneider
> > Lead Systems Administrator - Storage
> > Sisters of Mercy Health Systems
> > 3637 South Geyer Road
> > St. Louis, MO 63127
> > Phone: 314-364-3150
> > Cell: 314-486-2359
> > Email: John.Schneider AT Mercy DOT net
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