**Edit**

Here is an example I worked out to allow multiple simultaneous backups to run from the cmd of a win 2008 R2 FS

You wouldn't need any the --vardir= or the --server= unless you are trying to run multiple backups (they allow allows multiple cache files)

C:\Program Files\avs\bin>avtar -c --id=MCUser --ap=MCUser1 --account=aumelpavsn02 --server=aumelpavsn02 --path=/clients/File/aumelpfs01.aurecon.info O:\ --label=aumelpfs01_O_Drive --vardir="C:\Program Files\avs\on_demand_var"

Don't have any examles but the command on the WinFS box is avtar.exe

I am planning to play around with this to run multiple simultaneous backups from the one cleint but have yet to do so. I'm sure there are other discussions in this forum on it so if you search for avtar you might find some.

C:\Program Files\avs\bin>avtar --help

Usage:  avtar [Options...]

Tasks:

-c, --create    Create a new backup

-x, --extract   Extract files from a backup

-t, --list      Show contents of a backup

    --backups   List available client backups

    --delete    Delete one backup from the server

    --showlog   Show session log of a backup

    --validate  Verify integrity of a backup

Options:

Heaps - see the output from the command line

If you have a UNIX / Linux background, you may find this helpful for understanding where the general avtar syntax comes from:

tar -cf filename.tar dir1 file1 file2

avtar -c dir1 file1 file2

Also, please be aware that the Administrator Server (MCS) is not aware of avtar backups so they will not appear in the activity monitor and do not follow the normal queuing rules.

I ran an avtar backup command on Unix, and saw the results in Avamar administrator client 6.1.0 -402 activity monitor. How is that different than the Administrator Server (MCS)?

Thanks.