Tivoli Header

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

Expire

The expire command inactivates the backup objects you specify in the file specification or with the filelist option.

When working in interactive mode, a prompt notifies you before files are expired.

The expire command does not remove workstation files. If you expire a file or directory that still exists on your workstation, the file or directory is backed up again during the next incremental backup unless the object is excluded by include-exclude processing.

If you expire a directory that contains active files, those files will not appear in a subsequent query from the GUI. However, these files will display on the command line if you specify the proper query with a wildcard character for the directory.

Note:
Because the expire command changes the server's picture of the client file system without actually changing the client file system, the expire command is not allowed on files located on a file system monitored by the Tivoli Storage Manager journal service.

Supported Clients

This command is valid for all Windows clients.

Syntax

>>-EXPire--+----------+---- filespec---------------------------><
           '- options-'
 
 

Parameters

options
You can use these command line options with the expire command: pick and filelist. For more information about command line options, see Chapter 10, "Using Options with Commands".

Note: If the user specifies filelist, then pick is ignored.

filespec
Specifies a path and a filename that you want to expire. You can enter only one file specification on this command. However, you can use wildcards to select a group of files or all the files in a directory. If you specify the filelist option, the filespec designation is ignored.

Examples

Task
Inactivate the letter1.txt file in the home directory.

Command: expire c:\home\letter1.txt

Task
Inactivate all files in the admin\mydir directory.

Command: expire c:\admin\mydir\*


[ Top of Page | Previous Page | Next Page | Table of Contents | Index ]