Installation and User's Guide

option in your client options file (dsm.opt). If you do not specify a directory pathwith the file name in the schedlogname option, the dsmsched.log resides in thecurrent working directory.Important: To prevent log write failures and process termination in certain cases,set the DSM_LOG environment variable to name a directory where defaultpermissions allow the required access.Related informationSelectiveThe selective command backs up files that you specify. If you damage or losethese files, you can replace them with backup versions from the server.When you run a selective backup, all the files are candidates for backup unlessyou exclude them from backup, or they do not meet management classrequirements for serialization.During a selective backup, copies of the files are sent to the server even if they didnot change since the last backup. This might result in more than one copy of thesame file on the server. If this occurs, you might not have as many differentdown-level versions of the file on the server as you intended. Your version limitmight consist of identical files. To avoid this, use the incremental command toback up only new and changed files.You can selectively back up single files or directories. You can also use wildcardcharacters to back up groups of related files.If you set the subdir option to yes when backing up a specific path and file, TivoliStorage Manager recursively backs up all subdirectories under that path, and anyinstances of the specified file that exist under any of those subdirectories.During a selective backup, a directory path might be backed up, even if thespecific file that was targeted for backup is not found. For example the followingcommand still backs up dir1 and dir2 even if the file bogus.txt does not exist.selective c:\dir1\dir2\bogus.txtIf the selective command is retried because of a communication failure or sessionloss, the transfer statistics displays the number of bytes Tivoli Storage Managerattempts to transfer during all command attempts. Therefore, the statistics for bytestransferred might not match the file statistics, such as those for file size.Supported ClientsThis command is valid for all clients.Syntax►►Selectiveoptions▼ filespec ►◄654 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Backup-Archive Clients: Installation and User's Guide