great idea ..
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 2:53 PM Subject: Re: dsmc enhancement request > On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Richard Sims wrote: > > > Interesting propsal, Mike: effectively a -preview mode for Backup. > > Note that, on Unix systems at least, an analogous function may be > > performed via the 'find' command, using a -mtime value relative to > > the last backup time for the filespace, which is granular to 24 hour > > time intervals. (Finer granularity could be had by using 'find' > > -mtime and -exec, to have a small Perl module do a stat() and test > > the file's last-modified time; or the more ambitious could write it > > all in Perl or C.) > > But it would take a dsmc facility as you propose to report the more > > interesting case of files now gone from the client which are still > > TSM space. > > > > Richard Sims http://people.bu.edu/rbs > > > > On Sep 17, 2004, at 8:04 AM, Mike wrote: > > > > >Since dsmc already knows how to read the local filesystem, > > >how to parse the dsm.opt/dsm.sys/inclexcl.list, and how > > >to talk with the tsm server, please (whomever) enhance dsmc > > >with a switch such that when run on a local node, not with > > >-virtualnodename, the program will load the dsm.opt, scan > > >all local files, and scan the repository, then generate a > > >list to stdout of all files on the local system that do not > > >exist in the repository. > > > > > >Mike > > > > I am looking for something more than a -mtime. My concern is a > mistake in the dsm.opt/dsm.sys/inclexcl.list that creates a > situation where only directories are backedup and no files in > those directories. I'm not asking for a list of files that > should be backed up now, though I really like that idea (-preview), > what I'm looking for is a set subtraction. Take a list of all > files in the live filesystems, subtract the set of all files > within the TSM repository, then give me the results. I'll look > at the results and see if they are 'resonable' not to be in > tsm, or decide that I need to modify my inclexcl.list, etc. > > Mike