On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Nicholas Cassimatis might have said:

> What about using "Incremental by date" during the migration?
>
> Nick Cassimatis
> email: nickpc AT us.ibm DOT com
>
> ----- Forwarded by Nicholas Cassimatis/Raleigh/IBM on 06/13/2006 03:30 PM
> -----
>
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 06/13/2006
> 01:38:20 PM:
>
> > On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Allen S. Rout might have said:
> >
> > > >> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:46:13 -0500, Mike <mikee AT MIKEE.ATH DOT CX> 
> > > >> said:
> > >
> > > > Would a 'poor-mans journaling' help? I wrote a small dos program
> > > > that scans all local disks and creates a file of files to give to
> > > > dsmc for backing up only the given files.
> > >
> > > What criteria do you use to select files?
> > >
> > > - Allen S. Rout
> > >
> >
> > Comparison to the time of another file.
> >
> > Mike
>

The program compares the timestamp of a given file (the target
file) to the timestamp of all files on the drives indicated. If the
file's timestamps are more recent than the target file, the file
is marked for backup.  All files marked for backup are written to
stdout or to a file, that file is then given to 'dsmc -sel FILE'
for backup of specific files.

Using this method I have no communication between dsmadmc and dsm
for determining if a file should be backed up and this program
completes in a few seconds or minutes.

Mike