I know a few options:

1- use CDP for files to backup workstations, this is a windows only
solution but I think it does provide more functionality and is
actually even cheaper than the normal TSM client
2- backup workstations during lunch hours
3- don't backup workstations, tell users that only data on fileservers
is backed up and that data on workstations is unprotected.

On Apr 22, 2009, at 2:55 , Roger Deschner wrote:

We're getting requests from a number of people who have their desktop
computers (mix of Macs and Windows XP/Vista) backed up to TSM, for a
way
to avoid leaving them on all night.

The issue is simple energy conservation. Even with the monitor off,
and
the disk drives spun down, a live PC still consumes quite a bit of
electricity. If you put it into either Hibernate or Standby mode, the
TSM Scheduler cannot run the backup.

We had thought of setting a POSTSCHEDULECOMMAND of "shutdown", but
that
has a severe problem. What if you were working late, because of an
urgent project, and backup ran. Your computer would then shut down
without saving what you were working on, and precisely because it was
urgent enough for you to be working on it late, this would be very
valuable work that would be lost.

Has anybody figured out a way around this basic problem?

Roger Deschner      University of Illinois at Chicago     rogerd AT uic DOT edu
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