ADSM-L

exclude.dir

2006-05-05 10:35:42
Subject: exclude.dir
From: "Patterson, Scott" <SPatterson AT HESS DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 10:35:10 -0400
Good day all,

I used an exclude.dir command in an effort to exclude a directory from
my backups.  While I was successful in exluding the directory from my
backup, the command also affected archive processing.

The following command was run inside a larger script - 

dsmc archive -archmc=$ADSMMC -subdir=yes -desc="$ADSMDESC" -verbose
"$BKPDIR/*"

This command resulted in the following message - 

ANS1115W File '/bkp/vol18/*' excluded by Include/Exclude list

I looked through some TSM manuals and I see different references to what
exclude.dir will actually exclude.  It some places the terminology "all
processing" is used and in others only "backup processing" is
referenced.

The reason I tried to use exclude.dir was because previous attempts to
exclude this data from backup processing using the below, had failed.

exclude /bkp/*          
exclude /bkp/.../*      
exclude /bkp/.../.../*  

Anyone have experience with using exclude.dir?  The exact command I had
placed in my include-exclude statement was 

exclude.dir /bkp

Once I removed the "exclude.dir /bkp" command, the archive jobs were
re-run successfully.    The TSM server in question is running AIX 5.3 ML
and TSM 5.2.7.

Thanks

Scott

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