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Huge Drive Only a few files to backup

1998-01-22 09:51:42
Subject: Huge Drive Only a few files to backup
From: Ron Heflin <Ron.X.Heflin AT AIT7.AMERITECH DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 09:51:42 -0500
  I am assuming you are doing an incremntal backup.  Try doing a
selective backup and name the two files in the command line.  The
selective backup can also be done using a schedule.


  Ron Heflin

> Hello fellow ADSMers,
>                     I have a question I really could use some help
with.
> I have a rather large drive on an os/2 client.(30 gb drive). The drive
> has about 300,000 file on it but I only want to backup 2  of the files
> and they are rather large (over a gb each). I point the domain
statement
> to backup the drive (e:) and then add include statements for the two
> files I want to backup and an exclude statement for the rest of the
> drive. Adsm still scans the entire drive whenever I run an incremental
> backup of the client and takes about 4-5 hours to process but the
actual
> data transmission only takes about 45 minutes.
> Is there any way to have it only process these two files and not
search
> the rest of the directory structure?
>
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