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

Description

The description option assigns or specifies a description for files when performing archive, delete, retrieve, or query archive operations. For example, if you want to archive a file named budget.jan and assign to it the description 2002 Budget for Proj 1, you would enter:

   dsmc archive -des="2002 Budget for Proj 1" c:\plan\proj1\
   budget.jan

You can also use this option to specify the description of a backup set that you want to query.

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

Supported Clients

This option is valid for all Windows clients.

Syntax

>>-DEScription- description------------------------------------><
 
 

Parameters

description
Assigns a description to the file you are archiving. If you do not specify a description, the default is archive date:x, where x is the current system date.

If you use the archive command to archive more than one file, the description you enter applies to each file. For example, to archive a group of files and assign the same description, Project X, to each file, you would enter:

   dsmc archive -description="Project X" c:\allproj\*.x

You can then use the description to retrieve all of the files.

Examples

Command line:
dsmc archive -des="2002 Budget for Proj 1" c:\foo\ *.prj


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