Well, not to quibble, Bill, but you can use exclude.dir to avoid
getting the C: directories, right?
And the problem of users / admins adding a drive in the future, and
TSM then SILENTLY skipping it due to DOMAIN D:,  is real.

I mean, I've seen this happen, and want to warn against this bad
practice.
Agree? Disagree?
------
Mr. Lindsay Morris
Principal
www.tsmworks.com
919-403-8260
lindsay AT tsmworks DOT com




On Jul 23, 2009, at Jul 23, 10:54 AM, Bill Boyer wrote:

I prefer to exclude it from the DOMAIN. That way you won't get the
directories on the C: drive. This is from the help.


     For example, in the following options Tivoli Storage Manager will
     process all local drives except for the c: drive, systemobject,
     and systemstate domain:

        domain ALL-LOCAL -c: -systemobject
        domain ALL-LOCAL -c: -systemstate



Bill Boyer
"Life is hard. After all, it kills you." - Katharine Hepburn



-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of
lindsay morris
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:27 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Incl/Excl Problem

Well, there's a problem there:
Our ART product has found several customers that shot themselves in
the foot by doing this:
  DOMAIN D:
because they don't want to back up C:, a stock image of windows-and-
office.

That works fine. But months later, the user adds drive E:, and TSM
silently skips it.

Better to use exclude of C:, IMHO

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Mr. Lindsay Morris
Principal
www.tsmworks.com
919-403-8260
lindsay AT tsmworks DOT com




On Jul 23, 2009, at Jul 23, 10:05 AM, km wrote:

Even easier (no OS involvment) would be to use:

virtualmountpoint c:\dir
domain c:\dir

in dsm.opt

-km

On 23/07, Adrian Compton wrote:

Hi Patryk

I found the best way to selectively backup directories was to
create a
share on the directory, and you can then choose that share as a
domain
to backup in your opt file.

Hope this helps

Regards



Adrian Compton
Aspen Pharmacare Port Elizabeth
tel: +2741 4072855
Fax: +2741 453 7452
Cell: +27823204495
Email: acompton AT aspenpharma DOT com
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of
Patryk Bobak
Sent: 23 July 2009 09:37 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Incl/Excl Problem

Hi,

I have problem with Incl/Excl list on client. I've searched forum
and
google
but I cant find good solution. I want to backup only one selected
folder
(with subfolders and files) from C:. For example "C:\test\". I
tryed a
lot
of configurations with exclude, exclude.dir and includes, and it
backup
my
whole C: or dont backup anything.

TSM Client: 6.1 Windows, TSM Server: 5.5.0 z/OS

Patryk.