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Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide


Chapter 7. Automating Tasks

Your administrator can schedule Tivoli Storage Manager to perform tasks automatically on a regular basis. For example, you can automatically back up files at the end of each day or archive some of your files every Friday. This procedure, known as central scheduling, is a cooperative effort between the server and your client node. Your administrator associates clients with one or more schedules that are part of the policy domain maintained in the server database. The administrator defines central scheduling on the server and you start the client scheduler on your workstation. Once you start the client scheduler, further intervention is not necessary.

With client scheduling, you can also:

Notes:

  1. The schedule start time is based on the server's local time, not the workstation's.

  2. Install the command line client and ensure the communication software is running before you start the client scheduler.


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