Hi Roger,

I can see you have had a few replies: we at Oxford have been chewing on this
for a while and have two solutions:

1. quick and dirty, run a PostNSchedulecmd as below ( machine only shuts
down after scheduled backup ) see:
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/hfs/help/faq/index.xml.ID=scheduled#shutdown

2. implement a wake-on-lan solution - this is more involved, especially if
your are crossing subnets ( the wol packet doesn't travel across subnets )
see http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/wol/ for more info on our solution.

Cheers
Ian Smith
Oxford University Computing Services:
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On Wednesday 22 Apr 2009 1:55 am, 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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