I would definitely not recommend swapping include/exclude lists, as the
results are bound to be undesirable. The main reason is because EXCLUDE
not only excludes files from backup, but also expires any existing backup
versions of the excluded files.

If you are looking to back up only a directory (or handful of
directories/files) during the week, then you might try this:

1) Define an incremental backup schedule that runs only on Sunday to back
up the entire machine.

2) Define a second backup schedule (incremental or selective, depending on
your needs) that runs on week-days, but also add the desired directories
to the OBJECTS setting in the schedule. For example:

   OBJECTS="/mylogs/"

or

   OBJECTS="/mylogs/ /otherdir/*.log"

etc.

If you need to process subdirectories, then add the -SUBDIR=YES option to
the OPTIONS setting in the schedule.

Don't exclude any files in your include/exclude list, unless they are
files that you *never* want to back up.

Now the week-day schedule will back up only the files specified in the
schedule's OBJECTS setting, and the week-end schedule will process the
entire system.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Tivoli Systems
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
e-mail: araibeck AT us.ibm DOT com

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Lindsay Morris <lmorris AT servergraph DOT com>
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08/14/2001 12:03
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        Subject:        Re: Need different files backuped on same Unix client.



If you create two clients, TSM will treat them like two different
machines,
and you'll double the amount of storage used.
Maybe you're OK with that...

What I'd try is setting up a cron job on sunday morning to run a script
like
this (untested - off top of head here):

#!/bin/sh
# usage: chgincludes [ sunday | weekday ]
cd /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin
cp inclexcl.$1 inclexcl
kill `ps -ef | fgrep dsmc sched | awk '{print $2}' `
nohup dsmc sched &

And in crontab
0 0 * * 0 /my/scripts-dir/chgincludes sunday
0 0 * * 1-6 /my/scripts-dir/chgincludes weekday

And of course you'd have to manually set up your two include-exclude files
and name them inclexcl.sunday and inclexcl.weekday.  And this assumes that
dsm.sys has a line in it like "inclexcl
/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/inclexcl"

You could do the same trick using client option sets on the server, and an
administrative schedule instead of crontab.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
> Joe Spade
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 2:51 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Need different files backuped on same Unix client.
>
>
> We are running TSM 4.1.3 server on a AIX system.  The client on the same
> system is run with a schedule everynight to backup up certain log
> files.  On Sunday we do an archive backup of all of the files.  Thie
> archive backup takes to long (12 hours) and we would like to cut it down
> by using the normal incremental backup.  I need to find a way to change
> the include-exclude file list on Sunday morning to insure a complete
> backup.  I had heard that you can create two clients on the same
> system.  If so, does anyone know how to do it and also how do you point
> it to a different dsm.sys and dsm.opt file?
>
> J. Spade
> R & L Carriers, Inc.