> We want performing an 'archive' using schedules. A few clients have a lot of > filesystems, about 50 or more. > > We already encountered the limitation of 20 objects in the object-field, so > we made 3 archive-schedules per system. It is a lot of work to define those > schedules and it will be much easier to select a volumegroup or the whole > system, so we are going to do a request for an enhancement. > > In clientversion 4.2.x. you can use the -filelist option, but upgrading is > not possible for the moment.
One possible alternative is to define a schedule with 'action=command' to run a shell script or Perl script on the client system, and have the script issue a series of 'dsmc archive' commands to archive whatever you want.