Manage multiple schedule requirements on one system

Normally, you can do this by associating a node with more than one schedule definition. This is the standard method of running multiple schedules on one system.

You must ensure that the schedule windows for each schedule do not overlap. A single client scheduler process is not capable of executing multiple scheduled actions simultaneously, so if there is overlap, the second schedule to start is missed if the first schedule does not complete before the end of the startup window of the second schedule.

Suppose that most of the file systems on your client system must be backed up daily, and that one file system containing critical data must be backed up hourly. In this case, you would need to define two schedules to handle this requirement. To avoid conflict between the hourly and daily backup schedule, the starttime of each schedule needs to be varied.

Suppose that most of the drives on your client system must be backed up daily, and that one drive containing critical data must be backed up hourly. In this case, you would need to define two schedules to handle this requirement. To avoid conflict between the hourly and daily backup schedule, the starttime of each schedule needs to be varied.

In certain cases, it is necessary to run more than one scheduler process on a system. Multiple processes require a separate options file for each process and must contain the following information:

• Define a unique node name for each process
• Specify unique schedule and error logs for each process
• When running in prompted mode, you must use the tcpclientport option to specify a unique port for each process.

Note: When the scheduler runs as a service, processing options specified in the Windows registry override the same options specified in the client options file.

The advantages of using multiple schedule processes:

• You can run more than one scheduled backup at the same time.
• You can specify different backup criteria for each schedule started, with the client option file or IBM® Storage Protect server override options.

The disadvantages of using multiple schedule processes:

• A unique file space for each node name on the IBM Storage Protect server is created.
• When restoring the data, you must use the same node name associated with the backup.

Multiple schedule processes can run on UNIX and Linux® platforms with either the client acceptor daemon-managed method, or the traditional method of running the scheduler. In either case, there are certain setup requirements:

• Each process must run using a different node name.
• You must create multiple stanzas in the dsm.sys file for each scheduler process. In each stanza, you must define a unique node name, along with unique values for the options errorlogname and schedlogname. You might also choose to define customized domain, include, and exclude statements for each stanza.
• In your dsm.sys file, set the passwordaccess option to generate in each stanza. The password must be generated for each node name that is running a scheduler process, by running a command such as dsmc query sess.
• If running with the schedmode option set to prompt, you should set a unique tcpclientport value for each stanza.

You must start each dsmc sched command or instance with the -servername option to reference its unique stanza name in dsm.sys. For dsmcad, it is necessary to define the environment variable DSM_CONFIG for each instance of dsmcad to reference its unique option file.

The following is an example configuration of two schedule processes managed by the client acceptor daemon in the dsm.sys file. Note that you must use full paths for the log file names to avoid the files being written in the root directory):

servername tsm1_sched1
	nodename        aixsvt01_sched1
	tcpserv         firebat
	tcpclientport   1507
	passwordaccess  generate
	domain          /svt1
	schedmode       prompted
	schedlogname    /tsm/dsmsched1.log
	errorlogname    /tsm/dsmerror1.log
	managedservices schedule

servername tsm1_sched2
  nodename        aixsvt01_sched2
  tcpserv         firebat
  tcpclientport   1508
  passwordaccess  generate
  domain          /svt1
  schedmode       prompted
  schedlogname    /tsm/dsmsched2.log
  errorlogname    /tsm/dsmerror2.log
  managedservices schedule

Contents of /test/dsm.opt1:

servername tsm1_sched1

Contents of /test/dsm.opt2:

servername tsm1_sched2

Open two shell command windows:

• In shell command window 1, enter:

  export DSM_CONFIG=/test/dsm.opt1
  sudo dsmcad
  

• In shell command window 2, enter:

  export DSM_CONFIG=/test/dsm.opt2
  sudo dsmcad
  

Note: You should enter these commands into a shell script if you intend to have the dsmcad processes started directly from /etc/inittab so that the proper DSM_CONFIG variable can be set prior to launching dsmcad.

You must create a separate service for each schedule process. If you are using the client acceptor daemon to manage the scheduler, a client acceptor daemon service and schedule service are required for each schedule. The following is an example of setting up two schedule processes to be managed by the client acceptor daemon:

dsmcutil inst /name:"TSM Client Scheduler1" 
/optfile:"c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsm.opt1"
/node:tsmcli_sched1 /password:secret /autostart:no /startnow:no

dsmcutil inst CAD /name:"TSM Client Acceptor1" 
/optfile:"c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsm.opt1" 
/cadschedname:"TSM Client Scheduler1" /node:tsmcli_sched1 /password:secret
/autostart:yes 

dsmcutil inst /name:"TSM Client Scheduler2" 
/optfile:"c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsm.opt2"
/node:tsmcli_sched2 /password:secret /autostart:no /startnow:no

dsmcutil inst CAD /name:"TSM Client Acceptor2" 
/optfile:"c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsm.opt2" 
/cadschedname:"TSM Client Scheduler2" /node:tsmcli_sched2 /password:secret
/autostart:yes 

Unique option files are required for each schedule instance, and must be identified at the time of service creation:

Option file #1 (c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsm.opt1)

tcps             tsmserv1.example.com
nodename         tsmcli_sched1
passwordaccess   generate
schedlogname     "c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmsched1.log"
errorlogname     "c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmerror1.log"
schedmode        prompted
tcpclientport    1507
domain           h:
managedservices  schedule

Option file #2 (c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsm.opt2)

tcps             tsmserv1.example.com
nodename         tsmcli_sched2
passwordaccess   generate
schedlogname     "c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmsched2.log"
errorlogname     "c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmerror2.log"
schedmode        prompted
tcpclientport    1508
domain           i:
managedservices  schedule