Stefan,

Thanks very much. I had another suggestion of using
resourceutilization but that doesn't help. The percent
of total change in each incremental is small and I
still end up scanning all 1M files. This looks more
like what I need. I didn't realize that it was
possible to put ranges within the exclude statements.
I'll have to give it a try.

Rodney
--- Stefan Holzwarth <stefan.holzwarth AT ADAC DOT DE> wrote:
> Hi Rodney
>
> we use successfully the following since 2 years:
> (for each Volume at the NAS server sznas01 we have a
> construct like the
> example "data1")
>
> Content of dsm_a.opt
> NODENAME                SZNAS01_A
> * EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[A-E]*
> EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[F-J]*
> EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[K-O]*
> EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[P-T]*
> EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[U-Z0-9$]*
>
> Content of dsm_b.opt
> NODENAME                SZNAS01_B
> EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[A-E]*
> *EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[F-J]*
> EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[K-O]*
> EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[P-T]*
> EXCLUDE.DIR \\sznas01\tsmdata1$\[U-Z0-9$]*
>
> ....
> so we have 5 TSM-nodes at one NT machine defined.
> The advantage is that you don't have that big
> volumes to backup and recover
> from one TSM-node.
>
> We are able do do a full incremental of all volumes
> of our filer within 24
> hours to TSM 5.2 @ MVS. (8 M+ objects 3 TByte Size)
>
> Kind regards
> Stefan Holzwarth
>
>
> > -----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: rh [mailto:rh_info_store AT YAHOO DOT COM]
> > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. Mai 2004 18:17
> > An: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Betreff: Command line equivalent for GUI
> >
> >
> > 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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