> BTW: Andy, I think the option is useful (one of our
> customers liked it very much) but needs to be documented.

Well, I'm afraid that I am going to have to disappoint on this, at least
for now. The option is deliberately undocumented, as it was put in there
for use only at the direction of IBM service. I don't even think it should
have been put in the GUI preferences editor, and in fact is being pulled
from the preferences editor for future releases. This option has not been
through any formal testing, so you use it at your own risk.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com

The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
The command line is your friend.
"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.




Zlatko Krastev <acit AT ATTGLOBAL DOT NET>
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In one of the new versions of the client a new option in the
dsm.sys/dsm.opt silently slipped - Exclude.Restore. It is not documented
at all, you cannot find it neither in the client manual nor in the `dsmc
help`!!!
But if you start the GUI client, select from the menu Edit -> Preferences,
choose Include-Exclude tab and select Category=Restore, .... you can
specify which files you want *not* to be restored. They will be skipped on
restore same as ordinary Exclude prevents during incremental backup. Even
if you choose only that excluded file, you will not get it restored -
there is force backup using `dsmc selective` but there is no "selective
restore".
You can use compete exclude patterns:
Exclude.Restore "C:\my garbage\...\*"
Exclude.Restore /home/user/unwanted/*log

BTW: Andy, I think the option is useful (one of our customers liked it
very much) but needs to be documented. I've missed it till few days ago as
I am using the GUI client only when I teach a class (and teaching I've
learned about the option :-)))

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






"Fernando Figueiredo (EDS)" <fernando.figueiredo AT GALPENERGIA DOT COM>
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Hi!

Using command line to do a restore I would like to exclude some files or
directories.
Can I exclude files/directories using "dsmc restore"?


FF
EDS Portugal
Core Infrastructure - Systems Administration