Yes.
You will get that for files that were backed up once, but are now excluded
(or have been deleted from the drive).

"expiring" doesn't mean the previous backup was necessarily deleted from the
server end; it means that TSM has detected that the file is now excluded or
deleted from the hard drive.

The previous backup is now marked "inactive", and from this point will be
managed based on your backup copy group values for "retextra" or "retonly".


-----Original Message-----
From: Lan Wu-Cavener [mailto:lxw34 AT PSU DOT EDU]
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 10:37 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Include/exclude not working


Yes, I tried to set up from client side as much as possible since server is
in the remote location, the only communication is through email. Sometimes
it is not easy to describe clearly what I wanted. But to make things
simple, I have to ask server people to help.

I did use a lot of exclude.dir with include option. My question is how to
read log file. It seems everything is sent to server including the
exclude.dir. In my log file I have entries like the following:

11/06/2003 15:56:16 Expiring-->                    0
\\machineName\c$\tsm_images_v52\System32\Redist\MS\System [Sent]

Does this ( Expiring--> ) mean this is an excluded directory?

Thank you very much for your help.
Lan

At 08:14 AM 11/6/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>A second response to my post from a few moments ago:
>
>Why not simply run
>
>    dsmc incremental g:\inetpub\ -subdir=yes
>
>Or create a schedule that backs up this directory only, as I described a
>day or two ago?
>
>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.
>
>
>
>
>Lan Wu-Cavener <lxw34 AT PSU DOT EDU>
>Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>11/06/2003 08:04
>Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
>
>         To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: Include/exclude not working
>
>
>Thanks much, Andy!
>
>I am glad that I asked the question, although it is very stupid one. I did
>read the user manual again.
>It seems that the DOMAIN is for defining 1) drives, (I just assumed the
>entries shown in my domain list window which mostly are directories could
>be used as domain objects.) or 2) share names which could be used to a
>directory (authentic shared one or not (cheating)). I do have a network
>shared directory needs backup on the d drive of the machine where TSM
>client resides. I will think this directory can be defined as share name.
>Am I correct? My question is that is "net share inetpub=g:\inetpub" a
>command line or I can put it into opt file?
>
>Lan
>
>
>Lan Wu-Cavener
>Dept. of Landscape Architecture
>PennState

Lan Wu-Cavener
Dept. of Landscape Architecture