Submitting a backup job to a machine with one drive/ group

Situation

Syntax

Backing up the entire machine

    as_backup -source <file list>

- where file list is the path to the directory or file.

Example: as_backup -source <hostname>

Submitting a repeating job that runs every other day

    as_backup -source <file list> -custom -repeat <month> <day> <hours> <min>

    Example: as_backup -source / -custom -repeat 0 2 0 0

Adding a job description to a job

    as_backup -source <file list> -description <text string>

    Example: as_backup -source / -description "open1 root backup"

    In the example above the text string must be in quotes.

Backing up a directory on a remote machine.

    as_backup -source <host name> <file list>

    Example: as_backup -source open1 /temp

Backing up the /usr directory at a specific time

    as_backup -source <file list> -at <hh:mm>

    Example: as_backup -source /usr -at 22:55

Creating a report file

    as_backup -source <file list> -logfile <filename> [summary|allactivity]

    Example: as_backup -source /opt -logfile myreport allactivity