initiate backups from TSM server not clients?

[itcsge]

Does anyone know of a way of initiating jobs from the TSM server rather than from clients?

TIA

 

[JohanW]

Yes.

help def clientact.

 

[JohanW]

Or prompted instead of polling schedule mode on the client.

Not sure what you mean exactly.

 

[itcsge]

My understanding is that the client schedules will poll TSM for backup times and then the client initiates/starts the backup.

If the client is behind a firewall then you can specify that TSM controls communicating schedule detail but is it still the client that starts the backup job?

I want to see if TSM can control the backup job and actually initiate it itself.

 

[moon-buddy]

If you want the TSM server to control when a backup starts, create a client schedule with a "command" directive. The next thing you need to do is create a backup script/batch file on the client. The TSM will then call this backup script using the "command" directive.

 

[JohanW]

Or use polling schedules on the client. However, define 'start the backup job'. If you want the server to initiate the job so the firewall sees it as an established session, I don't know if polling scheduling is enough to accomplish that. Test.

Scheduling a command means the client will initiate the backup. TSM will cause an OS process to start, which might be a TSM backup, but it'll be client-initiated because it will not be a scheduled backup in the strict sense of the word.