If you make changes to the dsm.opt file, you need to reload the dsmc
nlm.

I had a situation with a Novell server where I wanted files in a certain
directory to be backed up regardless of whether they had changed or not.
 I couldn't exclude them from the incremental backup without excluding
them from selective backups as well.
The way I got around this was to add an include statement to determine
the Management Class.  I had to set up the Backup Copy Group for that
Management Class with a mode of Absolute instead of Modified.  That way
the incremental backup backed them up even if they were not changed.

I realise this is not the same scenario as yours, but if you could just
run one backup to meet both needs, this might help.

Dianne Sharp
Operations Analyst
ISS CUSTOMER SUPPORT
Ext 4208

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>From:  Andy Carlson[SMTP:andyc AT ANDYC.CARENET DOT ORG]
>Sent:  Saturday, 28 December, 1996 4:53AM
>To:    Multiple recipients of list ADSM-L
>Subject:       include/exclude problem
>
>We have a novell server that we want to do some special processing with.
>At 9pm, we want a selective backup of a directory.  Then a 3AM, we do an
>incremental and want to exclude the backed up directory.  We tried this
>with include/exclude, which did not work, and I would have know that if I
>had read the manual a little closer.  Is there a way to do this?  I asked
>the novell guys if they had a way to move the inclexcl file in and out at
>different times, and they said they did not.  This brings up a question
>though - does adsm reread the inclexcl file at the time the command is
>executed, or only at the time load dsmc schedule is executed.  Thanks.
>
>
>Andy Carlson        andyc AT andyc.carenet DOT org
>BJC Health System
>St. Louis, Missouri
>