Curtis, if I may ask: how can you monitor backup status (ie success or
failure of all your nodes) if you use autosys?

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Mr. Lindsay Morris
Lead Architect
www.servergraph.com
512-482-6138 ext 105

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
> Curtis Stewart
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 11:10 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: Schedule for the last day of the month...every month
>
>
> We've just decided to get rid of the whole TSM scheduler for the most
> part and go with an external schedular for TSM backups (AutoSys). It
> fixes the whole "last day of the month, or quarter or whatever" problem
> easily. It also lets us quit using the TSM scheduler on our clients.
> This may not be the right answer for you, but it looks like it's going
> to work fine for us.
>
> curtis stewart
>
> Kent Monthei wrote:
>
> >You might be able to develop & schedule a little script which
> >        a) does a 'delete schedule'
> >        b) goes through a loop that performs a 'define schedule' for the
> >31st/30th/29th/28th (in that order)
> >        c) after each 'define schedule' attempt, checks the Return Code
> >(or output of 'q sched')
> >        d) exit if/when the 'define schedule' is successful.
> >
> >Then schedule the script to run on any of the 1st through 28th day of the
> >month.
> >
> >Kent Monthei
> >GlaxoSmithKline
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >"Bill Boyer" <bill.boyer AT VERIZON DOT NET>
> >
> >Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> >19-Jun-2003 13:14
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> >
> >
> >        To:     ADSM-L
> >
> >        cc:
> >        Subject:        Schedule for the last day of the
> month...every month
> >
> >I have a client that wants to do monthly backups on the last day of the
> >month. A co-worker did some testing and creating a schedule for say
> >5/31/3002 with PERU=MONTH. The June event gets scheduled for 6/30, but
> >then
> >remains the 30th day from then on. Until Feb next year when it moves to
> >the
> >29th.
> >
> >Outside of creating a schedule for each month with a PERU=YEAR,
> is there a
> >way to do a schedule on the last day of every month??
> >
> >TIA,
> >Bill Boyer
> >"Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield." - ??
> >
> >
> >
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