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The selective command backs up files that you specify. If these files become damaged or lost, you can replace them with backup versions from the server. When you run a selective backup, all the files are candidates for back up unless they are excluded from backup in your include-exclude list, or they do not meet management class requirements for serialization.
During a selective backup, copies of the files are sent to the server even if they did not change since the last backup. This might result in more than one copy of the same file on the server. If this occurs, you might not have as many different down-level versions of the file on the server as you intended. Your version limit might consist of identical files. To avoid this, use the incremental command to back up only new and changed files.
You can selectively back up single files or directories. You can also use wildcard characters to back up groups of related files.
If you set the subdir option to yes when backing up a specific path and file, Tivoli Storage Manager recursively backs up all subdirectories under that path, and any instances of the specified file that exist under any of those subdirectories.
During a selective backup, a directory path may be backed up, even if the specific file that was targeted for backup is not found. For example:
selective c:\dir1\dir2\bogus.txt
still backs up dir1 and dir2 even if the file bogus.txt does not exist.
If the selective command is retried because of a communication failure or session loss, the transfer statistics will display the number of bytes Tivoli Storage Manager attempts to transfer during all command attempts. Therefore, the statistics for bytes transferred may not match the file statistics, such as those for file size.
If you perform a backup over a network device with limited bandwidth, such as with a modem, you can reduce network traffic by using the subfilebackup option. In order to use this feature, you must first specify the adaptive subfile backup options during a normal backup. For information about adaptive subfile backups, see Performing a Backup with Limited Bandwidth. For more information about using the subfilebackup option, see Subfilebackup.
Please see Autofsrename for information about using the Unicode-enabled client.
Tivoli Storage Manager backs up named streams on a file basis only. Backup of a named stream containing sparse file data is not supported. A sparse file is backed up as a regular file if Client compression is off. Enable file compression (compression=on) when backing up sparse files to minimize network transaction time and to maximize server storage space.
Microsoft disk quotas do not affect the amount of data you can back up.
Supported Clients
This command is valid for all Windows clients.
Syntax
.---------------. V | >>-SELective--+----------+------ filespec---+------------------>< '- options-'
Parameters
You can use the quiet common option with the selective command. See Chapter 9, Setting Processing Options for information about common options.
Examples
Command: sel c:\devel\proja.dev
Command: sel c:\devel\proj*.*
Command: sel c:\devel\proj* c:\planning\*.fin