Re: Questions/problems with Mac OS X client 5.2.2

On Jan 23, 2004, at 1:34 PM, Bill Verity wrote:

I installed and setup tsm from my whvadmin account.  From there, I set
up the client scheduler.  Now tsm runs automatically and around 10
a.m. it backs up, even if whvadmin is not running. *However*, it only
back us files for the whvadmin userid.  I'd prefer it to back up the
entire machine.


Which scheduler are you using - the legacy scheduler (GUI, with TSM
Scheduler Daemon running) or the new 'unix-style' scheduler (with
dsmcad running in the background)?
You should have the new scheduler, and it should be running as root:

       animal% ps auwx|grep dsmcad
       root    1557   0.0  0.1    57884    772  ??  S    13Jan04   0:32.99
/usr/bin/dsmcad
       animal%

It's started from the script /Library/StartupItems/dsmcad/dsmcad when
Mac OS X boots.

I can check my own backups, but not others:

       animal% whoami
       swl
       animal% dsmc q ba /Users/swl/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist
       ...
                    Size      Backup Date        Mgmt Class A/I File
                    ----      -----------        ---------- --- ----
                6,186  B  01/14/2004 12:32:24    DEFAULT     A
Animal:Users:swl:Library:Preferences:loginwindow.plist

       animal% dsmc q ba /Users/hal/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist
       ...
       ANS1092W No files matching search criteria were found

However, you can run dsmc as root and check the status of other users'
backups:

       animal% sudo dsmc q ba /Users/hal/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist
       ...
                    Size      Backup Date        Mgmt Class A/I File
                    ----      -----------        ---------- --- ----
                  456  B  10/31/2003 18:59:56    DEFAULT     A
Animal:Users:hal:Library:Preferences:loginwindow.plist

If you're checking with the GUI client, you'll need to use 'TSM Backup
for Administrators' rather than the plain 'TSM Backup'.  The latter
will only show other users' backed up directories, not their files.

This behavior is consistent with TSM on other Unices - try a 'dsmc q ba
/etc/passwd' as a non-root user and you'll get an ANS1092E (4.x) or
ANS1092W (5.x) too.

  Scotty

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Scotty Logan <swl AT stanford DOT edu>
Information Technology Systems and Services, Stanford University