Known limitations and workarounds

SCO ARCserve/Open Lite command line limitations

If you are using SCO ARCserve/Open Lite, you must use the arcserve.cmd utility (located in /usr/lib/ARCserve) to perform basic backup and restore operations from the command line. This utility is useful for scheduling SCO ARCserve/Open jobs from cron(1) or other such scheduling utilities.


NOTE: The documented command line options for the Full version of SCO ARCserve/Open are not available to the Lite product.


The arcserve.cmd utility syntax is:

Optional parameters include:

-d
destination path. If no destination path is specified, the destination is the current directory.

-h
help on usage.

-e
exclude certain file patterns, which must be in quotes.

-E
exclude certain directory patterns, which must be in quotes.

-g
tape group name that the job should use. If no group is specified, the default tape group is used (the one with the lowest SCSI ID).

-i
include certain file patterns, which must be in quotes.

-I
include certain directory patterns, which must be in quotes.

-n
session number to restore.

-s
previously saved script path.

-t
tape name that the job should use.

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