Are you you using NT or Windows 2000?

First, I would add an include for the staging directory, ADSM.SYS, so that
the registry and other system objects are processed correctly (this is
important on Windows 2000):

* this should be the last include/exclude statement, i.e., at the bottom of
the list
include *:\adsm.sys\...\*

If you are running Windows 2000, I suggest looking into the registry for
clues on which files to exclude.  There is a key called
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore\FilesNotToBackup which
has a list of files that backup programs cannot process.

Look for TSM client to be a bit more clever in the future in this area,
i.e., automatically excluding FilesNotToBackup, automatically including
staging directories, etc.

Thanks,
Jim Smith
TSM Client Development


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Hello
Hello

Do you find the the files that i excluded in dsm.opt correct for a normal
File / Print Server??

exclude.file       *:\pagefile.sys
exclude.file       *:\WINNT\system32\CPL.CFG
exclude.file       *:\...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\default
exclude.file       *:\...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\default.log
exclude.file       *:\...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\sam
exclude.file       *:\...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\sam.log
exclude.file       *:\...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\security
exclude.file       *:\...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\security.log
exclude.file       *:\...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\software
exclude.file       *:\...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\software.log
exclude.file       *:\...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\system
exclude.file       *:\...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\system.alt

Thanks for the help

Mauro Filippin