Joe, We run TSM on AIX. I've written a script to stop reclamation at a given time. I have modified it to cancel a session. The script issues "q se" and selects the line with the server name. Pipe the line to sed to get rid of the commas, and use the value of field 1 (session number) in a 'cancel session' command. Run the script at 04:00. If you're running TSM on windows a perl script can be written to do the same thing. I run the script on the TSM server, but it should work from any attached system.
dsmadmc -id=<id> -password=<password> q se | grep <server name> | \ sed -e 's/,//g' |\ awk '{print "dsmadmc -id=<id> -password=<password> cancel sess " $1}' > /tmp/cancel.sess chmod +x /tmp/cancel.sess /tmp/cancel.sess rm /tmp/cancel.sess Hope it helps, Jim Schneider United Stationers -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Crnjanski Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 3:21 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] weird request for schedule Hello, I have a customer who wants to run backup only during specific time window; from 10pm to 4am. That means when backup starts at 10pm, and runs until 4am, and even if at 4am there are more files to be backed up, he wants backup to stop and to be rescheduled for next backup cycle. Any ideas appreciated. Joe Crnjanski Infinity Network Solutions Inc. Phone: 416-235-0931 x26 Fax: 416-235-0265 Web: www.infinitynetwork.com