Thanks Richard. I think I'll just hang onto Veritas for a bit.
Angus
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Richard Sims
Sent: 07 September 2007 12:15
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Archiving files older than a certain date
On Sep 7, 2007, at 6:05 AM, Angus Macdonald wrote:
> I have a lot of very old files in various Windows filesystems,
> which I would like to archive. Many of them have not changed in
> years but are often opened for reference only, so the modified date
> doesn't change. I would like to archive everything that has not
> been accessed (ie opened at all) since a certain date? Can TSM do
> this? I can't see any options for the Archive command to select
> files by age.
>
> I have a Veritas system that can do it easily but I'm trying to
> retire it!
Angus -
No, TSM can't do this, at its current state of development. This
gets back to my recent posting regarding the TSM CLI being neglected
such that it doesn't provide rather basic capabilities that customers
should expect, and doesn't try to remain competitive relative to what
other vendors are doing. Client development needs an infusion of
fresh ideas and motivated people. And, probably, the big company
needs less bureaucracy stifling creativity and the implementation of
new ideas. Look at the rich capabilities in the Linux command set,
as a public example of people regularly adding helpful features to
software: TSM's CLI looks utterly stunted by comparison.
Probably your best bet is to create a small perl script which does
the date test and invoke dsmc archive as appropriate.
Richard Sims at Boston University
