great idea ..


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike" <mikee AT MIKEE.ATH DOT CX>
To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: dsmc enhancement request


> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Richard Sims wrote:
>
> > Interesting propsal, Mike: effectively a -preview mode for Backup.
> > Note that, on Unix systems at least, an analogous function may be
> > performed via the 'find' command, using a -mtime value relative to
> > the last backup time for the filespace, which is granular to 24 hour
> > time intervals.  (Finer granularity could be had by using 'find'
> > -mtime and -exec, to have a small Perl module do a stat() and test
> > the file's last-modified time; or the more ambitious could write it
> > all in Perl or C.)
> > But it would take a dsmc facility as you propose to report the more
> > interesting case of files now gone from the client which are still
> > TSM space.
> >
> >    Richard Sims    http://people.bu.edu/rbs
> >
> > On Sep 17, 2004, at 8:04 AM, Mike wrote:
> >
> > >Since dsmc already knows how to read the local filesystem,
> > >how to parse the dsm.opt/dsm.sys/inclexcl.list, and how
> > >to talk with the tsm server, please (whomever) enhance dsmc
> > >with a switch such that when run on a local node, not with
> > >-virtualnodename, the program will load the dsm.opt, scan
> > >all local files, and scan the repository, then generate a
> > >list to stdout of all files on the local system that do not
> > >exist in the repository.
> > >
> > >Mike
> >
>
> I am looking for something more than a -mtime. My concern is a
> mistake in the dsm.opt/dsm.sys/inclexcl.list that creates a
> situation where only directories are backedup and no files in
> those directories. I'm not asking for a list of files that
> should be backed up now, though I really like that idea (-preview),
> what I'm looking for is a set subtraction. Take a list of all
> files in the live filesystems, subtract the set of all files
> within the TSM repository, then give me the results. I'll look
> at the results and see if they are 'resonable' not to be in
> tsm, or decide that I need to modify my inclexcl.list, etc.
>
> Mike