Manual says the date is specified in the same format as is specified by the
dateformat option, so no.
>>> rdavis AT UH DOT EDU 28/05/2004 2:29:07 >>>
Thanks Steve for your suggestion. Just for my own information though, does
the -fromdate option take relative dates like -fromdate=today-3?
On 5/23/04 6:02 PM, "Steve Harris" <Steve_Harris AT HEALTH.QLD.GOV DOT AU>
wrote:
> Renee,
>
> Provided that you have a recent version of the client, you can pass a list of
> files to it with -filelist
>
> Just use the appropriate find command for your OS to create the list before
> invoking dsmc.
>
> eg for unix
>
> find /foo/bar -name '*.frobz" -mtime +5 -path > /tmp/backup$$
> dsmc arch -<other options as necessary> -deletefiles -filelist /tmp/backup$$
> rm /tmp/backup$$
>
> HTH
>
> Steve Harris
> AIX and TSM Admin
> Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia
>
>
>>>> rdavis AT UH DOT EDU 21/05/2004 6:39:06 >>>
> I have a user that wishes to run a batch job that archives a certain
> directory and deletes the files afterwards. In selecting the files to be
> archived and deleted, he wants to use a relative date (like -deletefile
> -fromdate=today-5) since this is a script and he does not wish to have to
> modify the date every time. Any ideas how to accomplish this would be
> helpful and also, does anyone know if the -fromdate -todate options accept
> relative dates?
> --
> Renee Davis
> University of Houston
>
>
>
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