Chuck,

  Try dsmc sel \*.* -subdir=yes

good luck
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> From: Chuck Tomlinson 793-0730 <chuckt AT AUSTIN.IBM DOT COM>
> From: Chuck Tomlinson 793-0730 <chuckt AT AUSTIN.IBM DOT COM>
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Scheduling a Full Selective backup.
> Date: Monday, May 12, 1997 11:52 AM
>
> I was wondering if anyone have been able to create a schedule to do a
selective
> backup of the nodes and it be of all file spaces(systems)  without having
to
> list each space on the 'object' line since this would be different from
system
> to system.
>
> Incase some of you are asking "why does he want to do this?", here is my
> thinking behind this.  If you are backing up say 400 clients (too many to
turn
> on collocation), after a while the clients data is going to be spread out
onto
> different tapes.  In an attempt to get the data on fewer tape I thought
that
> if I did a selective backup periodically it would help to collect the
data to
> fewer tapes.  Also  I want to try to reduce the impact on the "version"
of each
> file.  I keep 3 versions for 60 day.  If I did a selective backup every
60 days
> (2 months) then it should not hurt the version count too bad.
>
> Now having said all that, what can I put in the "objects" field to get
all of
> the file spaces.  I tried '*' and that just got all files in "/" only and
not
> any other file spaces or subdirectories.
>
>
> Thanks for the help.
> Chuck T.
>
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>
>  Charles (Chuck) N. Tomlinson               IBM Global Services, Austin,
Texas
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