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Tivoli Storage Manager for Macintosh Backup-Archive Client Installation and User's Guide

Starting in Daemon Mode

The scheduler daemon, a background application that operates in sleep mode until it is time to run a schedule, starts the Scheduler program. The Scheduler program then queries the server for the next schedule to run and performs the scheduled action, such as a backup or restore, at the scheduled time. Using the scheduler daemon during sleep mode requires very little memory.

To start the scheduler in daemon mode, follow these steps:

    For Macintosh OS 9.1

  1. If an alias does not already exist, create an alias to the scheduler daemon and place it in your Startup Items folder in the system folder.
  2. Restart your system to start the daemon and the Scheduler. The Scheduler queries and runs the next schedule. Otherwise, the scheduler quits and the daemon sleeps until the next scheduled run.

    For Macintosh OS X:

  1. Open the Login Preferences Panel.
  2. Drag and drop the TSM Mac X Schedule Deamon into the Login Items window.

Depending upon when your administrator has set your schedules to run, the scheduler might run while you work. Clicking on another running application places the scheduler in the background.

If you must stop the scheduler daemon, remove the alias from your Startup Items folder and restart, or use a utility such as ProcessWatcher to end the daemon process.


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