Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Administrator's Guide


Managing Tivoli Storage Manager Schedules

You can perform the following activities when managing schedules.

Task Required Privilege Class
Verifying that the scheduled ran Any administrator
Adding, copying, modifying, or deleting TSM schedules System or unrestricted policy
Adding, copying, modifying, or deleting TSM schedules for specific policy domains System, unrestricted policy, or restricted policy for those domains
Displaying information about scheduled operations Any administrator

Verifying that the Schedule Ran

You will want to ensure that all defined nodes completed their operations according to their schedule. You can check whether the schedules processed successfully by using the QUERY EVENT command. For information, see Displaying Information about Scheduled Events.

You can also check the log file described in Checking the Log File That is Generated When Schedules are Processed.

Checking the Log File That is Generated When Schedules are Processed

When TSM processes scheduled operations, TSM stores schedule log information. By default, TSM stores this information in a file called dsmsched.log and places it in the directory where your TSM backup client is installed. You can override this file by specifying the SCHEDLOGNAME option in the client options file.

This file contains information such as the statistics about the backed up objects, the name of the server backing up the objects, and the time and date of the next scheduled operation.

Adding New Schedules

You can add TSM schedules by using the TSM Scheduling wizard included with the TSM Server Utilities. For more information, see Creating Tivoli Storage Manager Schedules. As an alternative to using the TSM Server Utilities, you can add and associate schedules by using the TSM command line interface or the administrative Web interface.

Copying Existing Schedules

You can create new schedules by copying existing schedules to another policy domain or to a newly named schedule in the same policy domain. The schedule description and all schedule parameter values are copied to the new schedule. An administrator can then modify the new schedule to meet site-specific requirements. See Creating Tivoli Storage Manager Schedules for information about modifying schedules.

Client node associations are not copied to the new schedule. You must associate client nodes with the new schedule before it can be used. The associations for the old schedule are not changed. For information, see Associating Client Nodes with Schedules and Managing Node Associations with Schedules.

To copy the WINTER schedule that belongs to policy domain DOMAIN1 to DOMAIN2 and name the new schedule WINTERCOPY, enter:

  copy schedule domain1 winter domain2 wintercopy 

Modifying Schedules

You can modify existing schedules in specified policy domain using the TSM Scheduling wizard included with the TSM Server Utilities. For information, see Creating Tivoli Storage Manager Schedules. As an alternative to using the TSM Server Utilities, you can modify schedules by using the administrative Web interface or by issuing the UPDATE SCHEDULE command from the TSM command line interface.

For example, to modify the ENGWEEKLY client schedule in the ENGPOLDOM policy domain, enter:

update schedule engpoldom engweekly period=5 perunits=days

The ENGWEEKLY schedule is updated to that the incremental backup period is now every five days.

Deleting Schedules

When you delete a schedule, all associations with client nodes are also deleted. TSM deletes all client node associations when you delete the schedule with the DELETE SCHEDULE command. See Associating Client Nodes with Schedules for more information.

To delete all schedules in the ENGPOLDOM policy domain, enter:

delete schedule engpoldom *  

Rather than delete a schedule, you may want to remove all nodes from the schedule and save the schedule for future use. For information, see Removing Nodes from Schedules.

Displaying Information about Schedules

You can determine when the next schedule is to run by issuing the QUERY SCHEDULE command. When you request information about schedules, the server displays the following information:

The following sample output shows an example of a report that is displayed after you enter:

query schedule engpoldom


+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Domain       * Schedule Name    Action Start Date/Time      Duration Period Day |
|------------ - ---------------- ------ -------------------- -------- ------ --- |
|ENGPOLDOM      MONTHLY_BACKUP   Inc Bk 07/21/1998 12:45:14      2 H    2 Mo Sat |
|ENGPOLDOM      WEEKLY_BACKUP    Inc Bk 07/21/1998 12:46:21      4 H    1 W  Sat |
|                                                                                |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+


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