Hi Michael, You can only use wildcard characters on the file name portion of a backup specification; not directories.
One approach, as others have mentioned, is to use INCLUDE/EXCLUDE statements to handle this. For example, you could add these to the dsm.opt file: include D:\Folders\...\* exclude D:\Folders\* exclude.dir D:\Folders\[$0-9b-z]* and then back up like this: dsmc incremental D:\Folders\ -subdir=yes The exclude.dir statement will prevent traversal and backup of all directories immediately below D:\Folders with names that begin wtih '$', the digits 0 - 9, and the letters b - z. If this directory happens to have subdirectories that begin with characters I did not mention, then you can just add them to the character class between the '[' and ']'. The exclude statement for D:\Folders\* will prevent backup of file objects that live directly in the D:\Folders directory, e.g., D:\Folders \somefile.txt. The include statement will process all files and directories in D:\Folders except for the ones excluded as above. Best regards, - Andy ____________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Raibeck | Tivoli Storage Manager Level 3 Technical Lead | stor...@us.ibm.com IBM Tivoli Storage Manager links: Product support: http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/Tivoli_Storage_Manager Online documentation: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7/welcome Product Wiki: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home/wiki/Tivoli%20Storage%20Manager "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 2015-10-29 09:03:58: > From: Michael Devenney <mdeven...@retsd.mb.ca> > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Date: 2015-10-29 09:04 > Subject: question about command line backup syntax > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> > > Hello > > I have a Windows server with the following file structure D:\Folders\ > > In this folder are A1folder, A2folder, A3folder, B1folder, C1folder > > I am trying to backup only the folders starting with the letter "A" > and their subfolders using the command line backup > dsmc backup d:\folders\A* -subdirs=yes > > This is not backing up the folders starting with "A". > > Can someone help with the correct syntax. > > Thanks > > Michael Devenney CNE, MCTS, A+, Server+ > Service Administrator > River East Transcona School Division > > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any > attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s), and > may contain confidential and privileged information. Any > unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. > If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by > reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. >