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Managing Tivoli Storage Manager Schedules

You can perform the following activities to manage schedules.

Task Required Privilege Class
Verify that the schedule ran Any administrator
Add, copy, modify, or delete client schedules in any policy domain System or unrestricted policy
Add, copy, modify, or delete client schedules for specific policy domains System, unrestricted policy, or restricted policy for those domains
Display information about scheduled operations Any administrator

Verifying that the Schedule Ran

You will want to ensure that all defined nodes completed their scheduled operations. You can check whether the schedules ran 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 Schedule Log.

Checking the Schedule Log

The Tivoli Storage Manager client stores detailed information about each scheduled event in a file. This file contains information such as the statistics about the backed-up objects, the name of the server to which the objects are backed up, and the time and date of the next scheduled operation.

The default name for this file is dsmsched.log. The file is located in the directory where the Tivoli Storage Manager backup-archive client is installed. You can override this file name and location by specifying the SCHEDLOGNAME option in the client options file. See the client user's guide for more information.

Adding New Schedules

You can add Tivoli Storage Manager schedules by using the Schedule Configuration wizard in the Tivoli Storage Manager Console. For more information, see Creating Tivoli Storage Manager Schedules. As an alternative to using the wizard, you can add and associate schedules by using the Tivoli Storage Manager command line interface or the administrative Web interface.

Copying Existing Schedules

You can create new schedules by copying existing schedules to the same policy domain or a different policy domain. The schedule description and all schedule parameter values are copied to the new schedule. You 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 from 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 by using the Schedule Configuration wizard in the Tivoli Storage Manager Console.

  1. Double-click the TSM Console icon on the server desktop.
  2. Expand the tree until the Tivoli Storage Manager server that you want to work with displays. Expand the server and click Wizards. The Wizards list appears in the right pane.
  3. Select the Schedule Configuration wizard and click Start. The Scheduling Wizard appears.
  4. Follow the instructions in the wizard, clicking Next until the TSM Scheduling Options dialog appears.
  5. Select the schedule you want to modify from the left pane.
  6. Click the Edit button. Make changes in the fields in the panels. Click Help for assistance with this dialog.
  7. When you are finished making changes, click OK or Apply.

As an alternative to using the wizard, you can modify schedules by using the administrative Web interface or by issuing the UPDATE SCHEDULE command from the Tivoli Storage Manager 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 so that the incremental backup period is now every five days.

Deleting Schedules

When you delete a schedule, Tivoli Storage Manager deletes all client node associations for that schedule. See Associating Client Nodes with Schedules for more information.

To delete the schedule WINTER in the ENGPOLDOM policy domain, enter:

delete schedule engpoldom winter  

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

When you request information about schedules, the server displays the following information:

The following 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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