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Re: [ADSM-L] Windows Client: Backing up just one folder

2009-03-03 13:34:26
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Windows Client: Backing up just one folder
From: Howard Coles <Howard.Coles AT ARDENTHEALTH DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 12:31:10 -0600
EXCLUDE "D:\...\*"
INCLUDE "D:\backmeup\...\*"

Will do the job.  Remember TSM looks at the list from the bottom up, so
put your includes at the bottom.  (also as soon as it matches it stops
looking, hence the reason the above works).

See Ya'
Howard


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of Michael Green
> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 8:47 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Windows Client: Backing up just one folder
> 
> I'm banging my head against something that supposed to be rather
> simple.
> 
> There is a windows machine and it has a disk -- disk D:
> Disk D: has all sorts of things on it. Among them a folder called
> 'backmeup'.
> I need to backup that folder and nothing else.
> 
> What sequence of INCLUDE - EXCLUDE statements will do the job?
> 
> The following sequence doesn't work.
> 
> INCLUDE "D:\backmeup\*"
> EXCLUDE "D:\...\*"
> EXCLUDE.DIR "D:\*"
> --
> Warm regards,
> Michael Green