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Tivoli Storage Manager for NetWare Backup-Archive Client Installation and User's Guide

Performing Command Line Backups

Running a Full Incremental Backup

To run a full incremental backup, use the incremental command. Tivoli Storage Manager runs an incremental backup on the volumes you specify in your client domain using the domain option. The volumes you specify can include the NDS. See Incremental for more information about the incremental command. See Domain for more information about the domain option.

You can specify the volumes you want to back up in any of the following ways:

Performing an Incremental-by-Date Backup

Use the incrbydate option with the incremental command to back up new and changed files with a modification date later than the last incremental backup stored at the server. For example, to perform an incremental-by-date back up of your default client domain, enter the following command:

   load dsmc incremental -incrbydate

See Incrbydate for more information about the incrbydate option.

Performing a Selective Backup

You can use the selective command to back up specific files, a group of files with similar names, entire directories, the NDS, or the NDS. This is called a selective backup.

You can use more than one file specification on the selective command. For example, to back up the sys:proj/test.doc and the NDS files, use:

   load dsmc selective sys:proj/test.doc nds

For more information, see Selective.

Backing Up Directories

If you back up a directory, you can use the subdir=yes option to include all the subdirectories under that directory in the backup.

For example, to back up the sys:proj directory and its subdirectories, use:

   load dsmc selective sys:proj/ -subdir=yes

Displaying Backup Processing Status

During a backup, by default Tivoli Storage Manager displays the status of each file it attempts to back up. Tivoli Storage Manager reports the file's size, path, file name, total number of bytes transferred, and whether the backup attempt was successful. Similar statistics are produced by the selective and archive commands. These also display in the dsmsched.log file for scheduled commands.

If you have set the resourceutilization option, Tivoli Storage Manager attempts to improve performance and load balancing by using multiple sessions when it backs up a volume or other set of files.

The command line displays similar information. On the backup-archive command line the name of each file displays after it is sent to the server. The progress indicator shows overall progress. Informational messages may display as follows:


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