Sorry folks, for the last sentence below that sort of trails off at the end. I meant to delete it before hitting "send".
Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence. Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/16/2002 08:07 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Daily Backup Report >> query event will NOT tell you if your backup was successful. << This is true only if the schedule definition launches a script, i.e. DEF SCH mydomain myschedule ACTION=COMMAND OBJECTS="myscript", and the script contains commands that run asynchronously; in that case, TSM has no way to track the actions taken within the script. It can only say, "the script was launched successfully". In short, the success or failure of the command depends on the return code issued from the script. For scheduled TSM operations (i.e. ACTION=INCREMENTAL), you should not have any problems determining success or failure of the operation. For ACTION=COMMAND operations where the command Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence. Mark Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/16/2002 07:34 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Daily Backup Report We also used "query event * * begindate=today-1 enddate=today ex=yes" until I learned that this does not report on clients that were or were not backed up successfully, this ONLY reports on if the script or schedule was successful. To quote straight from the h q event page "Use this command to check whether schedules were processed successfully." I will not go into a rant about this, just learn from my mistake, query event will NOT tell you if your backup was successful. -----Original Message----- From: Williams, Tim P {PBSG} [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 9:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Daily Backup Report we generally run a q event command ex=yes you can use begindate begintime parms, etc.... help q event fYI -----Original Message----- From: Orin Rehorst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 8:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Daily Backup Report What are some good ways to get an automated daily report on which clients were or were no backed up successfully? TIA, Regards, Orin Orin Rehorst Port of Houston Authority (Largest U.S. port in foreign tonnage) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: (713)670-2443 Fax: (713)670-2457 TOPAS web site: <www.homestead.com/topas/topas.html <http://www.homestead.com/topas/topas.html> >