Yes, this is possible from the commandline. You can schedule a command to start 
a batch which then reads the files from a previously created file containing 
the filenames to backup.

More specific information can be found here:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/topic/com.ibm.itsmc.doc/ans30000190.htm#filelst

Cheers,

Rick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On 
> Behalf Of
> Gaurav Marwaha
> Sent: donderdag 17 november 2005 15:37
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Scan TIme
> 
> 
> Hi everyone, we use Tivoli where we have a File system with 
> millions of
> files, what happens is that only a few files are added 
> everyday and this list
> can be known, is there a way we can tell the client to look 
> at this file list
> rather than Tivoli scanning the whole file system again.
> 
> As this scan of FS take a lot of time and the backup takes a 
> lot of time.
> 
> Thanks
> Gaurav
>