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

Imagetype

Use the imagetype option with the with the backup image command or the include.image option to specify the type of image backup you want to perform.

Place the include.image statement containing the imagetype value in your client options file dsm.opt.

Note:
The Tivoli Storage Manager Client API does not support this option.

Supported Clients

This option is valid for Windows 2000 clients only.

Syntax

>>-IMAGEtype- value--------------------------------------------><
 
 

Parameters

value
Specifies one of the following values:

snapshot
Specifies that you want to perform an online image backup during which the volume is available to other system applications. This is the default if the LVSA is installed and configured. Valid for Windows 2000 only.

static
Specifies that you want to perform an offline image backup during which the volume is locked and unavailable to other system applications.. Valid for Windows 2000 only.

Examples

Options file:
include.image h: MYMC imagetype=static

Command line:
-imagetype=static


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