If you don't' want to make the users responsible for starting their
backups, you can put a .bat file in the autologon.bat script that sleeps
for 5 minutes, then does "dsmc incremental".

That is probably the easiest solution.
The disadvantage of that , there is no TSM server schedule for it, so
you won't know if they backed up or not by looking at TSM events.  But,
given that they are laptops, are you going to be able to have them on a
schedule you can check reliably anyway?


The only other thing I can think of would be to put them in POLLING
mode, and have an admin script that defines a ONETIME schedule daily.
Not sure if that would work or not.



-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Nancy Reeves
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 4:16 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: schedule start randomization


Is there are way to have some schedules start randomly within their
start
window and other start immediately?

I'm trying to figure out how to get laptops to automatically backup when
they have a network connection. I have a schedule with a 23 hour start
time (based on someone's suggestion) and the laptop has schedmode set to
polling. It connects & gets a schedule time, but since I have
randomization set for my other clients, the backup time may be hours
away
and the laptop may no longer be connected to the network.

(Server is 5.2.2 on AIX, client is 5.3 on Windows in this case.)
Thanks.

Nancy Reeves
Technical Support, Wichita State University
Nancy.Reeves AT wichita DOT edu          316-978-3860