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

Selective Backup

Use a selective backup when you want to back up specific files or directories regardless of whether a current copy of those files exists on the server. Incremental backups are generally part of an automated system to back up entire file systems. In contrast, selective backups allow you to manually select a set of files to backup regardless of whether they have changed since your last incremental backup.

To perform a selective backup using the client GUI, see Backing Up Data from the GUI for more information.

Use the selective command to perform a selective backup from the client command line. See Selective for more information.

Unlike incremental backups, a selective backup:


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