Hi Roger, I can see you have had a few replies: we at Oxford have been chewing on this for a while and have two solutions:
1. quick and dirty, run a PostNSchedulecmd as below ( machine only shuts down after scheduled backup ) see: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/hfs/help/faq/index.xml.ID=scheduled#shutdown 2. implement a wake-on-lan solution - this is more involved, especially if your are crossing subnets ( the wol packet doesn't travel across subnets ) see http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/wol/ for more info on our solution. Cheers Ian Smith Oxford University Computing Services: -- On Wednesday 22 Apr 2009 1:55 am, Roger Deschner wrote: > 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 =========================
