Jim,

Richard Sims' 2/23/2001 message [Message-ID:
<200102231221.HAA62316 AT fserv2.bu DOT edu>] mentioned the 20 file limit on
the dsmc archive,delete and selective commands (see the help for
ANS1102E).

If you're on Unix (or have the Cygnus or MKS tools on Windows) you can
use xargs to work around this limitation.

  xargs -n 20 dsmc archive OPTIONS < filelist

will sequentially start dsmc archive processes.

To run the archives in parallel you'd have to do something like:

  xargs -n 20 dsmc archive OPTIONS < filelist | sed 's/$/ \&' >
archive.sh
  sh archive.sh

or define a script archive:

  #! /bin/sh
  exec dsmc archive OPTIONS $* &

and run

  xargs -n 20 archive < filelist

Note that with this method you can also pass dsmc options through xargs:

  xargs -n 20 archive -se=testserver < filelist

Hope this helps,

  Scotty

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Scotty Logan, ITSS
Scotty Logan, ITSS
swl AT stanford DOT edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On
> Behalf Of
> Jim Taylor
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 11:48
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Archive of file lists
>
>
> Presently, we have scripts that break our DB into x groups of
> files.  A dsmc
> arch command is issued against each file in the group one at
> a time.  We are
> therefore using x streams of dsmc arch commands to archive the db.
>
> This seems like a lot of overhead, spawning a separate dsmc
> session per
> file.
>
> QUESTION:  Is there a way to pass a file list to the dsmc
> arch command in
> place of the file spec?  I know that I can issue the file
> names separated by
> commas, however I run into a problem with the length of the command.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> > Jim Taylor
> > Senior Associate, Technical Services
> > Enlogix
> > *  E-mail: jtaylor AT enlogix DOT com
> > *  Office: (416) 496-5264 ext. 286
> > * Cell:  (416)458-6802
> > *   Fax: (416) 496-5245
> >
> >
>