Thanks Richard, I'll just keep going with this.

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Richard Sims
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 11:04 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Query for inactive data summary

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/