Hello Andy
Thank You for the information. I will use your suggestion.
Regards
Michael Devenney
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Andrew Raibeck
Sent: November-04-15 11:25 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] question about command line backup syntax
Hi Michael,
You can only use wildcard characters on the file name portion of a backup
specification; not directories.
One approach, as others have mentioned, is to use INCLUDE/EXCLUDE statements to
handle this. For example, you could add these to the dsm.opt
file:
include D:\Folders\...\*
exclude D:\Folders\*
exclude.dir D:\Folders\[$0-9b-z]*
and then back up like this:
dsmc incremental D:\Folders\ -subdir=yes
The exclude.dir statement will prevent traversal and backup of all directories
immediately below D:\Folders with names that begin wtih '$', the digits 0 - 9,
and the letters b - z. If this directory happens to have subdirectories that
begin with characters I did not mention, then you can just add them to the
character class between the '[' and ']'.
The exclude statement for D:\Folders\* will prevent backup of file objects that
live directly in the D:\Folders directory, e.g., D:\Folders \somefile.txt.
The include statement will process all files and directories in D:\Folders
except for the ones excluded as above.
Best regards,
- Andy
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 2015-10-29
09:03:58:
> From: Michael Devenney <mdevenney AT RETSD.MB DOT CA>
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Date: 2015-10-29 09:04
> Subject: question about command line backup syntax Sent by: "ADSM:
> Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
> Hello
>
> I have a Windows server with the following file structure D:\Folders\
>
> In this folder are A1folder, A2folder, A3folder, B1folder, C1folder
>
> I am trying to backup only the folders starting with the letter "A"
> and their subfolders using the command line backup dsmc backup
> d:\folders\A* -subdirs=yes
>
> This is not backing up the folders starting with "A".
>
> Can someone help with the correct syntax.
>
> Thanks
>
> Michael Devenney CNE, MCTS, A+, Server+ Service Administrator River
> East Transcona School Division
>
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