Just what I wanted to here. I was planning on deleting just to be safe before the backup. Our system object files have grown to such large numbers that we wanted to do something about it to help with the DB growth. I'm glad to hear you do not have a problem with them.
Thanks Eric -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robertson, Louis Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 12:00 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Question on the preschedulecmd Eric, I have been running the same setup on my servers for a few years and have not had a problem with TSM backups running prior to the presched finishing. The only issue I have run into is that on some servers I had the ntbackup hang waiting a response form the console. What I found was that for some reason the backup file I was creating was not automatically overwriting the previous day's file and was waiting for a response to overwrite the old file. It only happened on two servers but as a result I ended up adding a line to my presched batch file on all my servers to remove the old file before I began that night's backup. Below is the text from my presched batch file: rem *************************************************************************************** rem ** The following lines were added on 17 Feb 2004 to address problems ** rem ** with ntbackup hanging on an overwrite question. ** rem *************************************************************************************** rem Delete system state backup file del c:\srvutils\systemstate.bkf rem *************************************************************************************** rem ** End of addition for deletion of system state backup files ** rem *************************************************************************************** ntbackup backup systemstate /f "C:\Srvutils\Systemstate.bkf" /m copy Hope this helps. Louis -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jones, Eric J Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 4:13 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Question on the preschedulecmd Good afternoon. I'm at the point where I've tested backing up the SYSTEM STATE with NTBACKUP, having TSM backup the drives and exclude the SYSTEM OBJECT, then rebuild the system, restore with TSM and use NTBACKUP to restore the SYSTEM STATE. I have a batch file to kick off NTBACKUP for the SYSTEM STATE backup and want to use the "preschedulecmd" to run this before TSM scans for changed files and does the scheduled backup. I need to make sure the batch file completes before TSM does the backup. Would there be any situation that TSM might start backing up before the prescheduledcmd completes? I've read in the readbooks and it says that "The preschedulecmd option specifies a command that the ADSM client program should process before it runs a schedule." Client running Win2K SP3 with TSM 5.2.2 Server running AIX 5.2 with TSM 5.2.2 Just checking before rolling out to all the Win2K servers. Thanks for all the help. Have a Great Day, Eric Jones > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *: 607-751-4133 Cell : 607-972-7621 *************************************************************************************************** The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. Access to this email by anyone other than the intended addressee is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, retention, or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please reply to or forward a copy of this message to the sender and delete the message, any attachments, and any copies thereof from your system. ***************************************************************************************************
