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Tivoli Storage Manager for UNIX Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide

Backing Up Data Using the GUI

You can back up specific files, a group of files with similar names, or entire directories. You can locate the files you want to back up by searching or filtering. Filtering displays only the files matching the filter criteria for your backup.

  1. Click Backup files and directories from the main window. The Backup window appears.
  2. Expand the directory tree. Click on the selection boxes next to the object or objects you want to back up. To search or filter files, click the Search icon on the tool bar.

      To search:

    1. Enter your search criteria in the Find Files (Backup) window.
    2. Click the Search button. The Matching Files (Backup) window appears.
    3. Click the selection boxes next to the files you want to back up and close the Matching Files (Backup) window.

      To filter:

      1. Enter your filter criteria in the Find Files (Backup) window.
      2. Click the Filter button. The Backup window displays the filtered files.
      3. Click the selection boxes next to the filtered files or directories you want to back up.
  3. Select one of the following backup types from the pull-down menu:
  4. To modify specific backup options, click the Options button located to the right of the Backup button. The options you select are effective during the current session only.
  5. Click Backup. The Backup Task List window displays the backup processing status.

To perform an automatic incremental backup of your default domain, select Actions> Backup Domain. Your default domain is set with the domain option in your client user options file (see Domain). If you do not have the domain option set, the default domain is all local file systems.


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