IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for UNIX and Linux: Backup-Archive ...

|||||||||||||||deleting every backup for every file in that file system and every file you archivedfrom that file system. Carefully consider whether you want to delete a file space.You can also delete a file space using the delete filespace command. See “DeleteFilespace” on page 423 for more information. Use the class option with the deletefilespace command to delete NAS file spaces. See “Class” on page 202 for moreinformation.You can delete individual backup versions by using the delete backup command.See “Delete Backup” on page 420 for more information.You can delete file spaces using the Tivoli Storage Manager GUI or command lineclients. To delete NAS file spaces, use the Web client or command line client.To delete a file space using the GUI, perform the following steps:1. Select Utilities→ Delete Filespaces from the main window.2. Click the selection boxes next to the file spaces you want to delete.3. Click the Delete button. Tivoli Storage Manager prompts you for confirmationbefore deleting the file space.Group backup: Backing up files from one or more file spacesYou can use the backup group command to create and back up a group containinga list of files from one or more file space origins to a virtual file space on the TivoliStorage Manager server. See “Backup Group” on page 404 for more information.A group backup allows you to create a consistent point-in-time backup of a group offiles that is managed as a single logical entity:v All objects in the group are assigned to the same management class. See“Include options” on page 269 for more information about using the includeoption to bind a group to a management class.v Existing exclude statements for any files in the group are ignored.v All objects in the group are exported together.v All objects in the group are expired together as specified in the managementclass. No objects in a group are expired until all other objects in the group areexpired, even when another group they belong to gets expired.A group backup can be added to a backup set. See “Restoring data from abackupset” on page 130 for more information about backup sets.You can perform a full or differential backup using the mode option. See “BackupGroup” on page 404 and “Mode” on page 291 for more information.For example, to perform a full backup of all the files named in the/home/dir1/filelist1 file to the virtual file space /virtfs containing the groupleader /home/group1 file, enter:dsmc backup group -filelist=/home/dir1/filelist1 -groupname=group1 -virtualfsname=/virtfs -mode=full96 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for UNIX and Linux: Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User’s Guide