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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management for UNIX: User's Guide


Scheduling Services

Your Tivoli Storage Manager administrator defines a schedule on the server and associates your client node with that schedule to perform backup, archive, or space management tasks automatically at specific times. Your administrator also sets server parameters to:

Central scheduling requires a cooperative effort between a Tivoli Storage Manager server and your client node.


Setting Scheduling Options

Before scheduled services can be performed, set scheduling options in your dsm.sys file and start a client scheduler on your workstation. The backup-archive command-line client must be installed to start the client scheduler. For information about setting these options in your dsm.sys file, see IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for UNIX: Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide.


Starting the Client Scheduler

The client scheduler must be running on your workstation before you start any scheduled work. Enter the Tivoli Storage Manager backup-archive client schedule command to start the client scheduler. For more information about starting the client scheduler, see IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for UNIX: Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide.

You can set up a cron job to run space management services at specific times. Set the reconcileinterval option to zero in your dsm.sys file so the HSM client does not reconcile file systems automatically at specific intervals. Use a cron job to run reconciliation at a specific time each day.

You can start the client scheduler at any time. The client scheduler runs continuously until you stop the process or log off from your system.


Displaying Information About Scheduled Services

You can display information about scheduled services as well as information about completed services. To display information about scheduled services for your client node, enter the command displayed below. This command is provided with the Tivoli Storage Manager backup-archive client. For more information about the dsmc query schedule command, see Tivoli Storage Manager for Unix Installing and Using the Backup-Archive Clients.

   dsmc query schedule

When you run the dsmc query schedule command in the foreground, output from scheduled commands displays on your screen. The output is directed also to a file named dsmsched.log in the current directory unless you change the path and file name with the schedlogname option in your dsm.sys file. When you run the dsmc query schedule command in the background, output is directed to the dsmsched.log file. Check the schedule log to verify that all work completed successfully.


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