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

Memoryefficientbackup

The memoryefficientbackup option specifies a memory conserving algorithm for processing incremental backups, that backs up one directory at a time, using less memory. Use this option with the incremental command when your workstation is memory constrained.

Note:

The server can also define this option.

Supported Clients

This option is valid for all UNIX clients.

Options File

Place this option in the client options file dsm.opt.

Syntax

                         .-No--.
>>-MEMORYEFficientbackup-+-----+-------------------------------><
                         '-Yes-'
 
 

Parameters

No

Your client node uses the faster, more memory-intensive method when processing incremental backups. This is the default.

Yes

Your client node uses the method that requires less memory when processing incremental backups.

Examples

Options file:

memoryefficientbackup yes

Command line:

-memoryef=no