Ah, I reread the original post, and I see it is necessary to use the
-nodename option in this case. :-)

Best regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development
Level 3 Team Lead
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.

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 03/02/2009
12:31:39 PM:

> [image removed]
>
> Re: Query Backup syntax for Windows 5.2 Client
>
> Andrew Raibeck
>
> to:
>
> ADSM-L
>
> 03/02/2009 12:34 PM
>
> Sent by:
>
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
>
> How about this?
>
>    dsmc q ba \\ct120\apps\ -nod=ct100
>
> Hints:
>
> a) Put your hyphenated options at the end of the command, e.g., after the
> file spec as in my example above.
>
> b) If you mean "all files", use "*" instead of "*.*". Otherwise "*.*"
will
> include only those files that have an extenstion. For example, a file
named
> \\ct120\apps\somefile will not be displayed when using "*.*".
>
> c) If you mean "all files", you can omit the "*" altogether, and just end
> the file spec with the backslash (as in my example above).
>
> d) You only need -nodename if you need to override the client options
file
> (or default) nodename.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Andy
>
> Andy Raibeck
> IBM Software Group
> Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development
> Level 3 Team Lead
> Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
> Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com
>
> IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page:
> http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/
> IBMTivoliStorageManager.html
>
>
> 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 03/02/2009
> 12:14:32 PM:
>
> > [image removed]
> >
> > Query Backup syntax for Windows 5.2 Client
> >
> > Thorneycroft, Doug
> >
> > to:
> >
> > ADSM-L
> >
> > 03/02/2009 12:21 PM
> >
> > Sent by:
> >
> > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> >
> > Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
> >
> > Hello,
> > I'm trying to issue a query backup for a filespace that is backed up
> > as a UNC, and can't
> > get the syntax right. The filespace is a shared drive on a remote
> > drive using the UNC in the domain
> > statement.
> >
> > Backup is run on Node CT100 the share I'm trying to query is on CT120
> >
> > the domain statement for CT100 is:
> > DOMain ALL-LOCAL
> > DOMain \\ct120\apps
> > DOMain \\ct120\images
> >
> > When I run
> > dsmc q backup -nodename=CT100 '{\\CT100\d$}*.*' Everything works fine
> >
> > When I run"\
> > dsmc q backup -nodename=CT100 '{\\CT120\ct120\apps}*.*'
> > or
> > dsmc q backup -nodename=CT100 '{\\CT120\\ct120\apps}*.*'
> >
> > I get "ANS1081E Invalid search file specification"
> >
> > There is no problem viewing or restoring the files from the GUI, I just
> > can't get the command line syntax right.