ADSM exclude list for Unix clients

From: Mike Knight, ISSC Aerospace, (314)234-5096, KNIGHTM at ISSCVM
Inet:                                             KNIGHTM AT VNET.IBM DOT COM
Subject: ADSM exclude list for Unix clients

I recently updated our ADSM include/exclude list on Unix clients and want
to share it with you.  The big savings is excluding netscape files.  On two
large clients it resulted in deleting 100k netscape cache files.  We were
backing up 20k new files each day and expiring 20k from the previous day.
By default these are stored in the user's home directory.

Your policies may differ on many of these files, just an example.

         Mike Knight (Just another user, not official policy)


    ******* Temporary user files which change on each use of the application
    EXCLUDE /.../.MCOM-cache/*
    EXCLUDE /.../.netscape-cache/*
    EXCLUDE /.../.netscape/cache/.../*
    EXCLUDE /.../.Xauthority
    EXCLUDE /.../.mosaicpid
    EXCLUDE /.../.bash_history
    EXCLUDE /.../.sh_history
    INCLUDE /.sh_history

    ******* Time sync file is constantly changing (xntp)
    EXCLUDE /etc/*/ntp.drift

    ******* Process ID files change each time a process is restarted.
    EXCLUDE /etc/sendmail.pid
    EXCLUDE /etc/snmpd.pid
    EXCLUDE /etc/syslog.pid
    EXCLUDE /etc/ibmatl.pid

    ******* Temp files with status of file systems, NFS, and lock management
    EXCLUDE /etc/mnttab
    EXCLUDE /etc/rmtab
    EXCLUDE /etc/sm/*
    EXCLUDE /var/statmon/sm/*
    EXCLUDE .nfs*

    ******* Performance monitor data is constantly changing
    EXCLUDE /var/adm/sa/sa*
    EXCLUDE /usr/perf/log/*/logproc
    EXCLUDE /usr/perf/log/*/logappl
    EXCLUDE /usr/perf/log/*/logglob
    EXCLUDE /usr/perf/log/*/status.scope

    ******* Directories for temporary files only
    EXCLUDE /usr/tmp/.../*
    EXCLUDE /var/tmp/.../*
    EXCLUDE /tmp/.../*

    ******* Log updated when ADSM client is run
    EXCLUDE /.../dsmerror.log

    ******* Network trace data is constantly changing
    EXCLUDE /usr/adm/nettl.LOG00

    ******** Miscellaneous files
    EXCLUDE /vicepa/.../*
    EXCLUDE /usr/vice/cache/.../*
    EXCLUDE /.../core
    EXCLUDE /.../wtmp
    EXCLUDE /*/lost+found/.../*