Kelly, good point about incremental.... my post assumes the scan behavior
is what is undesirable, or *only* the "day" directories should be
processed.

Regards,

Andy

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Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 01/04/2007
02:44:00 PM:

> Well, if you are doing an incremental backup, it will ignore the
> previous day's directory without you having to do anything special.  It
> will want to scan that directory to see if there is anything to move,
> but it won't move anything.  If you don't want that scan behavior,
> consider installing the journal engine.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Kelly J. Lipp
> VP Manufacturing & CTO
> STORServer, Inc.
> 485-B Elkton Drive
> Colorado Springs, CO 80907
> 719-266-8777
> lipp AT storserver DOT com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of
> Richard Hammersley
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 2:38 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] windows - backup different set of directories on
> different days
>
> I have a process on a windows system that creates about 400gig of data
> each day.  It dumps this data each day to a different directory.
> Monday's to "monday", Tuesday's to "tuesday" etc.
>
> I only want tsm to backup the data in that day's directory and not any
> of the other days.
>
> I'm currently using the TSM scheduler and TSM acceptor on the client to
> trigger the nightly backups.
>
> Anyone have any ideas / suggestions how I might go about that ?  Is
> there a way to do it in the include/exclude file ?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Richard