Joe,

It is doubtful that you will have any problems with restore; the reason
why most of these files are excluded is that they are held exclusively and
you will not be able to backup the files in the first place. Exceptions to
this are things like the temporary internet files which are excluded
because they are somebody's temporary work area and are not needed - these
are innocuous also and it will not hurt if they are restored.

Newer versions of the TSM b-a client (4.2.2, 5.1.0) automatically exclude
most of these files, so they are no longer needed in dsm.opt (we're trying
to make sure any of the recommended exclude lists that are documented
reflect this).  Try to issue a Q INCLEXCL from the command-line client and
you will see several exclude statements which have a Source File of
Operating System.  We get these values from the registry key:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore\FilesNotToBackup
Microsoft uses this key to communicate exclude lists to backup products.

Thanks,
Jim Smith
TSM client development

I found the section in the manual that covers the recommended Windows
system files to exclude (see below).  I changed the dsm.opt files to
reflect this list.  My question is:  If I attempt a full restore will
these
files that got backed up (prior to me excluding them) restore and risk
corrupting windows as the manual suggests?  If so, how do I address this?

exclude "*:\microsoft uam volume\*"
exclude "*:\microsoft uam volume\...\*"
exclude "*:\...\ea data. sf"
exclude "*:\...\pagefile.sys"
exclude "*:\...\ibmbio.com"
exclude "*:\ibmdos.com"
exclude "*:\msdos.sys"
exclude "*:io.sys"
exclude.dir *:\recycled
exclude.dir *:\recycler
exclude.dir *:\...\system32\wins
exclude.dir *:\...\system32\LServer
exclude.dir *:\...\system32\dhcp
exclude.dir *:\...\system32\config
exclude.dir "*:\system volume information"
exclude *:\...\system32\perflib*.dat
exclude.dir "*:\...\temporary internet files"
exclude "*:\documents and settings\...\ntuser.dat.LOG"
exclude "*:\documents and settings\...\ntuser.dat"
exclude "*:\documents and settings\...\usrclass.dat.LOG"
exclude "*:\documents and settings\...\usrclass.dat"

Thanks in advance -

Joe McAllister
Grundfos Pumps Corp.