Probably the biggest gripes that I have against TSM.  Having dealt
with other Backup vendors, Tivoli is very good at batching things, but
it is difficult to follow a single process, or backup for that matter
through to completion.  You may be used to other tools that allow you
to see completion codes and event output sorted by job or process.
Unfortunately TSM does not do this.  You are stuck querying actlog or
running SQL or using any of the fine reporting tools out there.  Most
of us have created shortcut "scripts" for this.  I don't have mine
readily available, but if you ask nice, or search the archives, I'm
sure you'll find what you need.

Gary Bowers
Itrus Technologies
On Oct 14, 2009, at 7:55 PM, Tribe wrote:

Hello,

I'm a beginner with TSM and this question might be very basic.
However, I wasn't able to find the answer in the documentation, so
here's my question:

I'm using TSM 5.5 and want to run all commands through the dsmadmc
command line. I'm backing up and restoring NAS nodes.

I found ways to start backups and query running processes (query
process <ID>), but I don't know how to query the status of finished
processes. I just want a simple way to figure out if a backup /
restore was successful. If I use the "query process <ID>" after the
job finished, it just tells me "Process cannot be found".

There must be a simple way to do that, right? I know that I can
query the actlog, but is there a better / easier way to do this,
given a process id?

Thanks,
Jan

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