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