On Mar 26, 2010, at 11:49 AM, Haberstroh, Debbie (IT) wrote:

> Thanks, I can get the occupancy for the filespaces; I am trying to get
> an actual list of inactive directory folders from the client and how
> much data they contain.  
> 
> I am currently using this query from the client:
> 
> dsmc q backup -subdir=yes -inactive "\\location\foldername\*.*" >
> c:\output.txt
> 
> These are all top level user directories that I am getting manually and
> then manually querying for content and summarizing for the amount of
> data.  I am looking for a better method to collect this.

TSM (at least through v5) does not provide a better way, unfortunately.  You 
can get file sizes only from the client side, and so have to parse the output 
of Query Backup to compile the summary you need.

  Richard Sims     http://people.bu.edu/rbs/