Installation and User's Guide

* Asterisk. Matches zero or more characters.? Question mark. Matches any single character at the present position.The following table shows examples of each wildcard.Table 62. Wildcard charactersPattern Matches Does not matchAsterisk (*)ab* ab, abb, abxxx a, b, aa, bbab*rs abrs, abtrs, abrsrs ars, aabrs, abrssab*ef*rs abefrs, abefghrs abefr, abersabcd.* abcd.c, abcd.txt abcd, abcdc, abcdtxtQuestion Mark (?)ab? abc ab, abab, abzzzab?rs abfrs abrs, abllrsab?ef?rs abdefjrs abefrs, abdefrs, abefjrsab??rs abcdrs, abzzrs abrs, abjrs, abkkkrsClient commands referenceArchiveImportant: Use an asterisk (*) instead of a question mark (?) as a wildcardcharacter when trying to match a pattern on a multibyte code page, to avoidunexpected results.The following sections contain detailed information about each of the TivoliStorage Manager commands.Information for each command includes the following information:v A description of the command.v A syntax diagram of the command.v Detailed descriptions of the command parameters. If the parameter is a constant(a value that does not change), the minimum abbreviation appears in uppercaseletters.v Examples of using the command.The archive command archives a single file, selected files, or all files in a directoryand its subdirectories on a server.Archive files that you want to preserve in their current condition. To releasestorage space on your workstation, delete files as you archive them using thedeletefiles option. Retrieve the archived files to your workstation whenever youneed them again.Use the snapshotroot option with the archive command in conjunction with aindependent software vendor application that provides a snapshot of a logicalvolume, to associate the data on the local snapshot with the real file space data528 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Backup-Archive Clients: Installation and User's Guide