Why not just give them a warning/mandate that if they are working late, they need to go out under services and disable the TSM client scheduler until they are done working, then start the scheduler before leaving.
-----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Roger Deschner Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 7:55 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Green issue: How to avoid leaving clients on all night We're getting requests from a number of people who have their desktop computers (mix of Macs and Windows XP/Vista) backed up to TSM, for a way to avoid leaving them on all night. The issue is simple energy conservation. Even with the monitor off, and the disk drives spun down, a live PC still consumes quite a bit of electricity. If you put it into either Hibernate or Standby mode, the TSM Scheduler cannot run the backup. We had thought of setting a POSTSCHEDULECOMMAND of "shutdown", but that has a severe problem. What if you were working late, because of an urgent project, and backup ran. Your computer would then shut down without saving what you were working on, and precisely because it was urgent enough for you to be working on it late, this would be very valuable work that would be lost. Has anybody figured out a way around this basic problem? Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago rog...@uic.edu ==== "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." ==== ========================= -- Wernher von Braun =========================
