Whoops, I misspoke - the Admin version of QUERY FILESPACE *does* let you
specify the file space ID.

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.

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 10/06/2004
10:41:17:

> I suspect you are mixing administrative commands with backup-archive
> commands. The syntax is not necessarily compatible. The client and admin
> books will provide information on the syntax for the respective
commands.
> Alternatively, you can quickly look up syntax like this:
>
> - For the backup-archive client, run "dsmc help" and use the menu
options
> to navigate the help.
> - From the admin client, run "help <command-name>" (for example, "help
> query filespace")
>
> With that said...
>
> The admin and backup-archive components both support the QUERY FILESPACE
> command (can be abbreviated to Q FI), but neither lets you specify the
> file space ID.
>
> The admin and backup-archive components also support DELETE FILESPACE
> commands, but the client version does not let you specify by file space
> ID.
>
> The backup-archive QUERY BACKUP command does not let you specify file
> space ID. However, provided that your current local drives map to the
UNC
> names shown by the QUERY FILESPACE output, you can use the drive letter
> format to query the backups. For example, the following are equivalent:
>
>    dsmc query backup \\storman\c$\mydir\ -subdir=yes
>    dsmc query backup c:\mydir\ -subdir=yes
>
> (povided that my current C: drive maps to \\stoman\c$).
>
> 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.
>
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 10/06/2004
> 10:29:26:
>
> > Within dsmc the command 'q files' gives you the list of
> > filesets stored for the current node. The command 'q
> > backup FILESET' shows all files stored for that fileset.
> > The problem I'm having is the fileset names are the
> > microsoft unc format of '\\node\c$'. The command 'delete
> > files FSID -namet=fsid' allows you to specify the fileset
> > to delete by the fsid. Is there a variant of the q backup
> > where you can also specify the fileset by fsid?
> >
> > Mike