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Defining a client backup schedule
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part is integrated into the Tivoli Storage Manager process and is responsible for managing the schedules and notifying clients. The client scheduler is a separate process on the Tivoli Storage Manager client and provides communication between the server and client. See "Scheduling" in IBM Tivoli Storage Management Concepts, SG24-4877, for further information about the client portion of the client scheduling system. A Tivoli Storage Manager client with an active scheduler process can be scheduled to perform any of the following actions: Back up (either incremental or selective) Archive Restore Retrieve External command or script Macro Image backup or restore (UNIX) The most common use of client schedules is to for an automatic incremental backup process for a group of machines. At this point in the configuration of Tivoli Storage Manager, you should have installed the Tivoli Storage Manager client software on your clients and defined them to a policy domain. You should also have activated the scheduler service on the client so that it is ready to accept schedules. The remaining activities are performed on the server. To complete a client schedule you need to perform the following operations on the server: 1. Define a client schedule. 2. Associate a client with the schedule. 3. Verify the client schedule. 12.3.1 Defining a client backup schedule In 1.1.1, "Our support material" on page 5, we show how to load a predefined macro into Tivoli Storage Manager. The macro mac.schedules, which we provide to define schedules for our book environment, are shown in "Define schedules" on page 735. The define schedule command defines a schedule to the Tivoli Storage Manager server. You then use the define association command to associate each client with the schedule. To define a client schedule, specify the following information: Policy domain name: The schedule will be created within this policy domain and can only be associated with nodes within that domain. Only Chapter 12. Scheduling 387