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


Performing Command Line Backups

You request archive services when you want to preserve copies of files in their current state, either for later use or for historical or legal purposes. You can archive a single file, a group of files, or all the files in a directory or subdirectory. After you archive a file, you can choose to erase the original file.

In addition, Tivoli Storage Manager stores trustee directory rights, trustee file assignments, file attributes, name spaces, and associated name space information with the archive copies of the files.

Use the archive command to archive files. Use wildcards to archive more than one file at a time. If you archive a directory of files, you can use the subdir=yes option to include all the subdirectories under that directory in the archive.

For example, to archive the files in the sys:proj directory and its subdirectories, use:

   load dsmc archive sys:proj/  -subdir=yes

You can use more than one file specification with the archive command. For example, to archive the sys:proj/h1.doc file and the sys:h2.doc file, use:

   load dsmc archive sys:proj/h1.doc sys:h2.doc

Use the description option to assign a description to the archive:

   load dsmc archive sys:h1.doc -description="Chapter 1, first version"

See Displaying Backup Processing Status for an explanation of the statistics that Tivoli Storage Manager provides after processing an incremental, selective or archive command.

Use the archmc option to specify a different management class than the one normally associated with the file.


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