Hi Rainer,

     It really depends on a number of factors such as whether or not you are
backing up customer installed third party applications, whether or not
e-mail is kept on the server or the local system, and how standardized your
environment is, to name just a few.

        If you have a pretty standardized environment then I would strongly
recommend excluding everything, then including only the information in the
/Users directory.  This will preserve the majority of the data that applies
only to your customer.  After that you may want to consider including only
those other directories that contain absolutely essential customer data such
as Eudora e-mail folders and the like that live outside of the /Users
directory.  This should cut down the number of entries considerably.  This
solution also assumes that your systems have a standard build that includes
all necessary software so that if a system completely crashes only the
customer specific data will need to be restored.  I hope this helps.


     Jim

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Rainer Wolf
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 5:38 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Question on recommended excludes for TSM-Mac Clients with
MacOS 10.4 ?

Hi TSMers,

we have tsm-server/solaris 5.3.2.1 and Macintosh tsm-Klients at 5.3.2.1.

since starting with macOS 10.4 those Macintosh - Klients are coming into
the tsm-server with quite a lot of tsm-db entries.
Doing just normal incremental backups those TSM-Clients are appearing
with up to 100.000 Directories and in the range of up to 500.000 Files in
tsm-db.
No Server - just acting as Labtops. The default-excludes that came
with the tsm-Klient Installation are active but don't seem to be very
efficient.

My question is: Has anyone some tipps how to handle that - are
we doing something wrong ?
Someone found extended reasonable excludes ?
Is there another way recommended for doing backup ? Is it reasonable
to propagate something else, for example to backup just and only
one Directory like /backup ?
We currently don't have very much of those mac-os-10.4 Klients
- so it's not a real problem for us - but I wonder
how to solve the Backup of lets say 200 MacLabtops ... a new tsm-db ?

Regards - and thanks in advance !
Rainer



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