RE: Backing up IFS subdirectories?

["rich herdman" <rherdman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I did verify that the SUBTREE value is using the default (which is '*ALL').


On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:45:29 -0000, Jeff Bull wrote:

>What value does your SUBTREE() value default to? - it should be '*ALL'.
>
>Jeff Bull
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: rich herdman [mailto:rherdman@columbus.rr.com]
>Sent: 11 February 2002 16:56
>To: midrange-l@midrange.com
>Subject: Backing up IFS subdirectories?
>
>
>As part of our weekly backups, we want to backup one directory in the
>IFS and all of the subdirectories below it.
>
>For whatever reason, the SAV command that I wrote is only saving the
>contents
>of the top directory.  Here's my command:
>
>         SAV        DEV('/qsys.lib/tapebcc.devd') +
>                      OBJ('/usr/*.*')  +
>                      ENDOPT(*UNLOAD) UPDHST(*YES)
>
>The parameter SUBTREE has a default value of *ALL, which the online help
>says "The entire subtree of each directory that matches the object name
>pattern is included.  The subtree includes all subdirectories and
>the objects within those subdirectories."
>
> Now I have been able to verify the hard way that none of the files
>in any subdirectory are being backed up (I did a DSPTAP
>DATA(*SAVRST) when my RST statement came back with
>'No Object Found').
>
>Can anyone see what I am missing?  Thanks.
>

Rich Herdman
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