[gpfsug-discuss] Mmbackup -- list files backed up by incremental run

[Jonathan Buzzard]

On Thu, 2020-01-09 at 21:38 +0000, Popescu, Razvan wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
>  
> This looks awesomely promising,  but I can’t find the info your refer
> here.   
> My SCHEDLOGNAME points to   /root/dsmsched.log     but  there is no
> file by that name in /root.     I have the error and instrumentation
> logs (dsmerror.log and dsminstr.log)  per their options, but not the
> scheduler.
>  
> Could it be because I don’t run mmbackup via the TSM scheduler ?!  
> (I run it as a cronjob, inside a little wrapper that takes care of
> preparing/deleting a snapshot for it).    Must I run the scheduler to
> log the activity of the client?
>  

That is not a "recommended" way to do a TSM backup. You should use a
schedule where the action is command. See

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.0/srv.reference/r_cmd_schedule_client_define.html

and then set the command to be your script.

JAB.

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