Fbpolicyname

Use the fbpolicyname option with the backup fastback or archive fastback commands.

The fbpolicyname option is the name of one or more comma-separated FastBack policies that you want to back up or archive from the backup proxy. You must specify at least one policy name. Specify multiple policy names using a comma-delimited list of policies. There is no default value.

If one or more FB policy names contain spaces, you must specify them within quotation marks. Here is an example: "FB Policy NAME1, FBPolicy Name 2".

If you do not specify any values for the fbclientname and fbvolumename options, all the volumes from all the FastBack clients in the policies that are specified are backed up. If you specify multiple policies in the fbpolicyname option, you cannot specify values for the fbclientname and fbvolumename options.

Windows operating systems If a policy specification contains both Windows and Linux FastBack clients, only the Windows volumes will be backed up or archived to the IBM Spectrum Protect™ server by the Windows backup-archive client.

Linux operating systems If a policy specification contains both Windows and Linux FastBack clients, only the Linux volumes will be backed up or archived to the IBM Spectrum Protect server by the Linux backup-archive client.

At least one snapshot should exist in the FastBack repository for the FastBack policies being archived or backed up prior to issuing the dsmc command

Supported Clients

Linux operating systems This option is valid for Linux x86_64 clients.

Windows operating systems This option is valid for all Windows clients.

Options File

Linux operating systems None. You can specify this option only on the command line.

Windows operating systems None. You can specify this option only on the command line. The server can also define or override this option.

Syntax


                 .-,-----------.   
                 V             |   
>>-FBPolicyname----policy_name-+-------------------------------><

Parameters

policy_name: Specifies the name of the FastBack policies. You can specify up to 10 FastBack policy names.

Important:

When specifying the archive fastback or backup fastback command:

At least one FBpolicyName is always required.
You can specify up to 10 values for FBPolicyName, if no values are specified for both FBClientName and FBVolumeName.
When you specify a FBClientName value, there must be only one value for FBPolicyName.
You can specify up to 10 values for FBClientName if only one PolicyName is specified, and no values for FBVolumeName are specified.
When you specify the FBVolumeName option, you can have only one FBPolicy, and only one FBCLientName specified. You must specify exactly one FBClientName. It cannot be omitted.
You can specify multiple FBVolumeNames if condition 5 is satisfied.
You must always specify the FBReposLocation option for Linux.

Examples

Command line:

dsmc backup fastback -fbpolicyname=Policy1,Policy2,Policy3 
  -fbserver=myFbServer 
  -fbreposlocation=\\myFbServer.company.com\REP

Backs up all volumes for all FastBack clients found in policies Policy1, Policy2 and Policy3.

To specify policies with spaces, enclose them in double quotation marks, for example:

-fbpolicyname="Policy 1,Policy2,Policy3"