dsmc s D:\MyFolder\ -subdir=yes The "s" is for "selective", which means "back up whether it has changed or not".
HOWEVER, THIS IS NOT RECOMMENDED! You aren't accomplishing anything by doing a "full" backup of a directory. You are creating duplicate backups of files in your TSM storage, and doing your users no good. Your "versions data exist" is only 2. Suppose a user creates a file on Monday. If they change the file on Thursday, you will back it up. If you do a selective backup on Sunday, when the file hasn't changed, you now have 2 versions that are identical, and no others. What if the owner of the file wants it restored back to Monday? You can't do that now, because all your backups are of the Thursday version. What good does that do?!? When TSM creates an incremental backup of a file, you can restore it, no matter how old it is. "full" backups are unnecessary and wreck your versioning. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicolas Launay Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 5:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: incremental backup Hi all ! TSM 5.2 on W2K... I' d like : -a full backup of a folder (and its content) on a client on sunday. -an incremental backup only if a file is modified every night of the week -and so on... My backup copy group is set up like that Policy Domain Name FS01_POLICY_DOMAIN Policy Set Name FS01_POLICY_SET Mgmt Class Name FS01_MGMT_CLASS Copy Group Name STANDARD Versions Data Exists 2 Versions Data Deleted 1 Retain Extra Versions 30 Retain Only Version 60 Copy Mode MODIFIED Copy Serialization SHRSTATIC Copy Frequency 0 Copy Destination FS01DEV0_DISKPOOL1 Table of Contents (TOC) - Destination Last Update Date/Time 2004-10-25 16:43:29.000000 Last Update by (administrator) ADMIN Managing profile - Now when I do for the first time (sunday) : dsmc i D:\MyFolder\ -subdir=yes all of my files in MyFolder are backed up, as it should be. But when I enter the same command the day after, it backs up everything again whereas no file has changed. The copy mode MODIFIED should not make only a backup of modified file? How should I do to bakcup what I want like I want? Thank you Nicolas
