Andi, you have always to change your scripts if there are new directories on
the NAS system...
So the risk is high to miss one.
Kind Regards, Stefan Holzwarth

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:storman AT US.IBM DOT COM]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. Mai 2004 15:51
> An: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Betreff: Re: AW: Command line equivalent for GUI
> 
> 
> If I understand this correctly, include/exclude isn't really the issue
> since from the GUI you were picking the specific 
> subdirectories that you
> wanted to process. Why not simply do the same thing from the CLI?
> 
> For example, if from the GUI you were selecting directories 
> C:\Some Dir,
> D:\MyDir, and D:\work\datafiles, then why not just do this?
> 
>    dsmc i "c:\some dir\*" d:\mydir\ d:\work\datafiles\ -subdir=yes
> 
> Note that the asterisk is required in the first example because the
> embedded space in the file specification necessitates using quotation
> marks. If you don't care why, then you can skip the rest of this. For
> those who want to know, it has to do with how the Windows command
> processor parses quotes, backslashes, and escape characters.
> 
> If I had used a command like this, without the asterisk:
> 
>    dsmc i "c:\some dir\" d:\mydir\ d:\work\datafiles\ -subdir=yes
> 
> Then the Windows command processor would have treated the ending
> slash-quote combination in "c:\some dir\" as an embedded 
> quotation mark
> rather than a delimiter, passing the following arguments to the TSM
> client:
> 
>    arg1: i
>    arg2: c:\some dir" d:\mydir\ d:\work\datafiles\ -subdir=yes
> 
> which would make the client think that arg2 was the entire file
> specifications, rather than three file specs and an option. 
> What we really
> want to pass to the client is:
> 
>    arg1: i
>    arg2: c:\some dir
>    arg3: d:\mydir\
>    arg4: d:\work\datafiles\
>    arg5: -subdir=yes
> 
> If this doesn't make sense, don't worry about it.... just use 
> the asterisk
> as I showed above and it should work fine.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andy
> 
> Andy Raibeck
> IBM Software Group
> Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
> Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
> Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com
> 
> The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
> The command line is your friend.
> "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.
> 
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm backing up a NAS device with 1M+ files. As
> > > other
> > > > posts indicate, the only way to get any
> > > performance in
> > > > this setup is to split the file backups across
> > > > multiple sessions. In my case I have two backup
> > > hosts,
> > > > each running two backup streams. I can start each
> > > of
> > > > the four backup streams using the GUI and
> > > selecting
> > > > appropriate folders. A kind of load balancing is
> > > > achieved by picking an appropriate mix of folders
> > > for
> > > > each backup stream. Each backup runs in a few
> > > hours
> > > > each stream processing a subset of the 1M files.
> > > >
> > > > My problem is I can't figure out how to accomplish
> > > the
> > > > same thing using the command line and associated
> > > > include/excludes. I'd like to schedule the four
> > > > streams to run the same way, each with an
> > > appropriate
> > > > set of folders/files to process. It would be
> > > wonderful
> > > > if I could somehow see how this is accomplished
> > > via
> > > > the GUI, as I can't seem to get the same behavior
> > > > using commands. Each combination I have tried
> > > always
> > > > results in each backup stream processing/scanning
> > > all
> > > > of the 1M files! This takes way too many hours and
> > > > doesn't provide the same parallel behavior I get
> > > when
> > > > running the GUI. How can I limit each stream to
> > > > processes only the files/folders I desire without
> > > > scanning everything; the same way as the GUI seems
> > > to
> > > > function?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for your help,
> > > > Rodney Hroblak
> > > > ADP
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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