Hi Geoff,

In sum, my recommendation is that you try it and see!   :-)

Note that you can review the effects of include and exclude statements in
at least a couple of ways:

1) The backup-archive command line client PREVIEW function

2) The backup-archive GUI which will visually indicate which files are
excluded.as you navigate the the directory tree structure

If you do not want to do this with a live node name, then register a test
node name, and use that to connect to the TSM server.

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

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManager.html

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

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 06/19/2006
21:59:23:

> I'm wondering if this will work as an exclude.dir. I'm finding that some
> instances of SQL have missed files in this directory because they are in
use
> and I don't see the standard .ldf and .mdf files I have excluded. So I'm
> wondering if I can exclude the directory this way since the directory
name
> between the Microsoft SQL Server directory and DATA directory are named
> differently.
>
>
>
>
>
> '\...\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\...\DATA'
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Geoff Gill
>
> TSM Administrator
>
> PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator
>
> SAIC M/S-G1b
>
> (858)826-4062
>
> Email:  <mailto:geoffrey.l.gill AT saic DOT com> geoffrey.l.gill AT saic DOT 
> com