Thanks, David. You are correct. Someone else pointed me in the direction of passing the variable as an array of drive letters rather than a string, which works correctly.
-----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> On Behalf Of David Bronder Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 11:22 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Need help using Powershell to create custom backup commands Because you have the volume list variable quoted, I think that part of the command actually translates to the single string "G: H: I: J:" rather than a list of drive letters. Which I think would be interpreted as G:"\ H: I: J:". On 9/23/20 8:21 AM, Schaub, Steve wrote: > I'm using PS to kick off custom backups and having trouble passing a list of > volumes to the incremental backup command in dsmc. > > Here is what the powershell statement looks like, the "$myBackupVolumeList" > variable is a string derived from an array: > & .\DSMC.exe Incremental "$myBackupVolumeList" > "-Optfile=$myClusterOptFile" | Out-File -Encoding ASCII -filepath > "$myTSMLogDetail" -Append > > The command translates to this: > c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmc.exe Incremental G: H: I: J: > -Optfile=cluster.opt > > Here is what shows up in the normal backup log: > IBM Spectrum Protect > Command Line Backup-Archive Client Interface > Client Version 8, Release 1, Level 4.0 > Client date/time: 09/21/2020 15:52:11 > (c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2017. All Rights Reserved. > Node Name: WNFC0310 > Session established with server TSMN02: AIX > Server Version 8, Release 1, Level 9.200 > Server date/time: 09/21/2020 15:52:12 Last access: 09/21/2020 > 15:41:03 Incremental backup of volume 'G: H: I: J:' > > > So it looks like it should work, but it fails with this error in the > dsmerror.log: > ANS1076E The specified directory path 'G:\ H: I: J:' could not be found. > > I have been unable to figure out where the stray backslash is coming from, > any help would be appreciated. > > Steve Schaub > Senior Platform Engineer II, Backup & Recovery BlueCross BlueShield of > Tennessee > -- Hello World. David Bronder - Systems Architect Segmentation Fault ITS-EI, Univ. of Iowa Core dumped, disk trashed, quota filled, soda warm. david-bron...@uiowa.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: https://www.bcbst.com/about/our-company/corporate-governance/privacy-security/email-policy.page <https://www.bcbst.com/about/our-company/corporate-governance/privacy-security/email-policy.page> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent by "Schaub, Steve" <steve_sch...@bcbst.com> securely using Transport Layer Security (TLS).
