Hello Andy

Thank You for the information. I will use your suggestion.

Regards

Michael Devenney

-----Original Message-----
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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