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wow, note this difference:

/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc incr /home/backups/
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Total number of objects inspected:    2.314
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Elapsed processing time:           00:00:01

and the same command without the trailing slash:

/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc incr /home/backups
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Total number of objects inspected:   32.378
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Elapsed processing time:           00:00:28

ever wondered where TSM stores its passwords? Documentation and lots of websites are talking about the file TSM.PWD, but where is it?

Voilà: /etc/adsm/TSM.PWD

just to remember how to test if a certain directory and its files are included in the backup using the TSM commandline interface:

./dsmc preview backup -console /path/to/dir/

delete one or more files from your backup (NOTE: the quotes in the second command are important, otherwise bash will expand the pattern and produce a list of files, which will confuse the TSM-client):

./dsmc delete backup /backups/mysql/mysqldump-complete-2010-01-20-1823.sql.gz
./dsmc delete backup '/backups/mysql/*.gz'