Quick Start


Automating Client Operations

You can schedule most client operations, such as backup, to begin automatically. You can schedule the following on most clients:

This section guides you through scheduling client backups for three registered client nodes: bill, mark, and mercedes.

  1. Schedule an incremental backup and associate the schedule with the clients. The schedule, named DAILY_INCR, is for the TSM default policy domain, named STANDARD. The default specifies backup to the disk storage pool BACKUPPOOL. This schedule calls for a schedule window that:

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    define schedule standard daily_incr action=incremental -
      starttime=23:00
     
    define association standard daily_incr bill,mark,mercedes
    



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    1. Expand Automation.

    2. Select Client Schedules.

    3. From Operations, select Define Schedule.

    4. Enter the schedule information and Finish.

    5. Return to Client Schedules.

    6. Select the desired schedule.

    7. From Operations, select Define Associations.

    8. Enter the association information and Finish.

  2. Start the client scheduler. For the schedules to become active for a workstation, a user must start the scheduler from the node.

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    dsmc schedule
    



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    To help ensure that the scheduler is running on the clients, clients can include the SCHEDULE command in their system start-up commands.

    The include-exclude list (file on UNIX clients) on each client also affects which files are backed up or archived by the two schedules defined in the preceding steps. For example, if a file is excluded from backup with an EXCLUDE statement, the file will not be backed up when the DAILY_INCR schedule runs.

  3. Because the DAILY_INCR schedule is to run daily, you can verify that it is working as it should on the day after you define the schedule and associate it with clients. If the schedule has run successfully, the status will be Completed.

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    query event standard daily_incr begindate=today-1
    



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    1. Expand Automation.

    2. Select Client Schedules.

    3. Select the desired schedule name.

    4. From Operations, select Query Client Events.

    5. Enter the required information and Finish.



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    You can limit the query of events to display only schedules that did not run as expected. For example, you can use the following command daily to see which clients did not run the DAILY_INCR schedule the previous day:
    query event standard daily_incr begindate=today-1 -
      exceptionsonly=yes
    

    Schedules that did not complete successfully have a status of Failed, Missed, or Severed.

  4. Check the results of the schedule DAILY_INCR on one of the clients that was associated with that schedule. For most clients, including OS/2 clients, information about what happens when a schedule runs is stored in the file dsmsched.log.


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