Hi Peter, Your last question is probably solved by using the "NWEXITNLMP NO" option in your DSM.opt files. That means you don't have to press a key to make the TSM client close.
I can't help too much with cluster backups using "dsmc sched" because we use DSMCAD. It's been very stable for us. Here's a standard DSM.opt file for a cluster resource using DSMCAD: * Cluster Config for XXXX Volume COMMMETHOD TCPIP TCPSERVERADDRESS xxx.mrl.ubc.ca TCPPORT 1500 NODENAME XXXX_VOL HTTPPORT 1611 ERRORLOGRETENTION 7 SCHEDLOGRETENTION 7 MANAGEDSERVICES WEBCLIENT SCHEDULE DOMAIN Volume: CLUSTERNODE YES PASSWORDDIR Volume:\Tivoli PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE NWPWFILE YES ERRORLOGNAME Volume:\Tivoli\dsmerror.log SCHEDLOGNAME Volume:\Tivoli\dsmsched.log SCHEDMODE POLLING NWEXITNLMP NO We have TSAFS set to "Disable Cluster: yes" in /ETC/SMS/TSA.cfg as well. The other thing we do is copy all the client files to the cluster volumes and run the clients from the volumes. We just rename dsmc.nlm to dsmc-vol1.nlm as appropriate for the volume in question. This lets us tie the loads and unloads of the CADs to the cluster object load/unload script. If you're dead set on using "dsmc sched" then perhaps there's some specific advice on that in the list archives. Oh and of course there's more generic advice like keeping current on TSAFS patches. Andrew Ferris Network Support Analyst iCAPTURE Research Centre University of British Columbia >>> Peter Schrijvers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/9/2006 9:03 AM >>> Hi, does someone know where I can find good information on backups for novell cluster volumes. We have three clusternodes with each 4 volumes. How can I configure this backup (prompted mode) so each time a volume is taken over by another clusternode, the backup schedule gets inactive on the 'old' clusternode' and get active on the new node? I'm also having problems unloading the dsmc sched on the volumes. Server goes into abend state. Also an extra push on the ENTER buttom is needed. So when I want to do this via scripting or something else I may not have to ENTER manually. Thx, Peter Schrijvers ==================== BASF-IT-Services N.V. Peter Schrijvers BIS IN-PA Tel. +32-3/561.24.77 Fax +32-3/561.32.20 ===================