Can you provide the output from the selective command that includes the
-removeoperandlimit option that doesn't work?

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 05/17/2004
12:51:51:

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> Howdy folks,
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> This is just to follow up with answers to questions posted while back.
> Many of you may already know this, but..  here it goes.
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> 1)  It was discover that you can't do selective backup of "SYSTEM
OBJECT,"
> and  because needed to backup everything I ended up writing a small
batch
> file/cmd file and used action=command as Andrew suggested.
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> fullback.cmd there is
> dsmc selective C:\*Dl:\* E:\* -subdir=yes >> fullback.out
> dsmc backup systemobject >> fullback.out
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> 2)  Also -removeoperandlimit doesn't work with selective command, so I
> ended up breaking them up into two separate schedules with 15 objects
each.
> Based on this experience, it was discovered that  some options may work
> with incremental may not work with  selective.      Grrrrrr..
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>
> Sung Lee
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> Thanks for the previous info.
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> Let's say I decide to list out the objects in the schedule.
> Is it possible to include "SYSTEM OBJECT" when performing scheduled
> selective backup for windows?
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>                Action: Selective
>                        Options: -SUBDIR=YES
>                        Objects: C:\* D:\* F:\*
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> and also let's say I have over 20 objects .. can you use
> -removeoperandlimit  like this?
>       Action: Selective
>                        Options: -SUBDIR=YES -REMOVEOPERANDLIMIT
>                        Objects:  "/"  "/usr/" ...  ... ...
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> Thanks,
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> Sung Lee
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> Sung,
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> Yes, selective backup uses the include/exclude list.
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> There is no concept of DOMAIN processing for archive or selective
backup,
> so you need to specify the paths in your OBJECTS list. If your goal is
to
> selectively back up entire drives (though why one would do this I do not
> know), you can update the backup copy groups and change the copy mode to
> ABSOLUTE, then just schedule incremental backups.
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> Another approach would be to define the schedule as ACTION=COMMAND. The
> command could be a script that runs on each client machine. In the
script
> you could automate the creation of the object list, then launch dsmc
> commands to back up the objects in the list.
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> Regards,
>
> Andy
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> 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
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> The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
> The command line is your friend.
> "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.
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> TSM and ADSMers,
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> I have a question about performing scheduled selective backups.
> Is it possible to create a schedule to do a selective backup of the
nodes
> without having to list each filespace inside the "objects"?
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> Like for UNIX  can i do
>  Options: -subdir=yes
>  Objects: "\*.*"
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> and for Windows
>  Options: -subdir=yes
>  Objects: "?:\*.*"
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> and also if you have include or exclude on the clients does selective
> backup go thru this list and performs include and excludes as specified
in
> the  file?
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> Thanks,
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> Sung  Lee
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