Curtis, if I may ask: how can you monitor backup status (ie success or failure of all your nodes) if you use autosys?
----------------------------- Mr. Lindsay Morris Lead Architect www.servergraph.com 512-482-6138 ext 105 > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Curtis Stewart > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 11:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Schedule for the last day of the month...every month > > > We've just decided to get rid of the whole TSM scheduler for the most > part and go with an external schedular for TSM backups (AutoSys). It > fixes the whole "last day of the month, or quarter or whatever" problem > easily. It also lets us quit using the TSM scheduler on our clients. > This may not be the right answer for you, but it looks like it's going > to work fine for us. > > curtis stewart > > Kent Monthei wrote: > > >You might be able to develop & schedule a little script which > > a) does a 'delete schedule' > > b) goes through a loop that performs a 'define schedule' for the > >31st/30th/29th/28th (in that order) > > c) after each 'define schedule' attempt, checks the Return Code > >(or output of 'q sched') > > d) exit if/when the 'define schedule' is successful. > > > >Then schedule the script to run on any of the 1st through 28th day of the > >month. > > > >Kent Monthei > >GlaxoSmithKline > > > > > > > > > > > >"Bill Boyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >19-Jun-2003 13:14 > >Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > To: ADSM-L > > > > cc: > > Subject: Schedule for the last day of the > month...every month > > > >I have a client that wants to do monthly backups on the last day of the > >month. A co-worker did some testing and creating a schedule for say > >5/31/3002 with PERU=MONTH. The June event gets scheduled for 6/30, but > >then > >remains the 30th day from then on. Until Feb next year when it moves to > >the > >29th. > > > >Outside of creating a schedule for each month with a PERU=YEAR, > is there a > >way to do a schedule on the last day of every month?? > > > >TIA, > >Bill Boyer > >"Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield." - ?? > > > > > > >