If you run backups the old way, by using the scheduler service, when you make changes to dsm.opt you must restart the scheduler service.
If you are running your backups with the "managedservices" option (i.e., the dsmcad/acceptor service), no restart is needed when you change DSM.opt. (Because what dsmcad does is toggle the scheduler on/off, essentially restarting the scheduler each time a backup is run.) If you make changes to a cloptset, no restart of ANYTHING is required. Wanda Prather "I/O, I/O, It's all about I/O" -(me) -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Fielding Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 4:09 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: dsm scheduler on windows Actually, this brings up a good question that I've never properly tested. When running a scheduler service *without* an Acceptor service, then you most definitely need to restart the service for changes to take place. But how about when running an Acceptor service? It makes sense to me that the Acceptor would need to be restarted whenever an option is changed that the acceptor must deal with, eg. tcpserveraddress, schedmode, etc. Some options, however, are only relevant to the scheduler service itself, such as exclude lists, dirmc, domain, etc. Since the scheduler service is started at the appropriate time by the acceptor, does this imply that the acceptor does not need to be restarted for these options? My personal belief is no - it doesn't need to be restarted if the changed option is one that the acceptor doesn't touch. I haven't tested this properly, however. Anyone proved/disproved this? Related Note: When changing items in a Cloptset, is there any requirement to restart a client scheduler? Documentation doesn't make this clear. Again, my belief is no, it doesn't need to be done, however I have not tested this.... regards, Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rushforth, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] dsm scheduler on windows > If you make a change in dsm.opt you have to restart the schedule service > for scheduled operations to pick up the change. > > The schedule service reads the option file at startup. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 4:03 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: dsm scheduler on windows > > Trying to set up an easier way to manage the configuration > (dsm.opt) on windows files. One comment mentioned today is > that anytime the dsm.opt changes the dsm sched service must > be cycled. Is that true? I thought only the windows equivilant > program to dsmc would read dsm.opt and as such it is the > only think that might need cycling or tweaking of dsm.opt changes. > > What's the real answer? > > Mike >
