Re: Client Backup Issue
2001-08-14 07:39:55
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Re: Client Backup Issue |
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Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU> |
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Tue, 14 Aug 2001 07:40:41 -0400 |
>In the schedule settings, you should change the OBJECTS from:
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> C:\TSM Backup
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>to
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> C:\TSM Backup\
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>unless you only want to back up the single file or directory named "TSM
>Backup", but I doubt that is what you want.
Andy - I have to ask: why does the software require customers to add
a slash or backslash (depending upon architecture type) to the
end of a specification for the client to know that the object is a
directory? As a programmer, I would write the software to simply test
for the actual object being a directory or not, rather than silently
fail to process the directory. That is, if the customer said to back
up XYZ, I would do so upon discovering the existence of the object,
be it a file or directory.
The slash-backslash requirement is counter-intuitive for customers in
general, where operating system commands never require adding a special
character to the end of a spec to say that the object is a directory:
such commands simply proceed to honor the invoker's request and process
the object as found. This special TSM requirement needlessly confuses
many customers, and is a pet peeve with the product.
Richard Sims, BU
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