Correction to my previous message - I asked if you really have that many
directories in the Oracle dir, when I meant to say do you really have that
many other directories on the E: drive?
Paul
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Paul Fielding <paul AT fielding DOT ca> wrote:
> Indeed just using the EXCLUDE as I specified will grab the directory tree
> still. It's a longer story, but the Reader's Digest version is that doing so
> ensure's the TSM BA client GUI can drill down to any given directory to find
> files you may have backed up.
>
> You can't use EXCLUDE.DIR on the "E:\" directory, otherwise you won't get
> the Oracle directory either for the reasons I specified previously.
>
> You could use the EXCLUDE.DIR on all the other directories in E: as
> suggested by Gary, but then (also as he suggested) you'll have more
> administrative overhead as you need to check periodically to ensure that all
> the dirctories in the E: drive are still being excluded - if someone adds a
> dir to the E: drive afterwards without telling you, it'll get backed up.
>
> Andy's suggestion for doing a separate schedule that targets the directory
> is actually pretty good, you'd get only the directory you want and don't
> risk someone doing something on the server to inadvertently cause you to
> start backing up unwanted data. However then you're maintaining a separate
> schedule (not really a big deal).
>
> As far as fear of the DB growing, I would ask you this - do you really have
> that many subdirectories in the Oracle dir that you're going to see any kind
> of noticable db growth as a result? Even if you have a hundred or a few
> hundred other directories there, it is not going to impact your db in any
> way that you could ever notice. If you had thousands of subdirs in there,
> then yes, I might be a bit concerned, though I'd be less concerned about the
> size of the db growth and more concerned about how long it takes to
> traverse the directories unnecessarily. In general, though, I've found
> that it hasn't been any kind of a super negative impact.
>
> I would also re-ask the question - are you really, really sure you don't
> want to backup anything else on this server, especially the OS? As I
> mentioned previously, in most TSM installations, the size difference that
> backing up the rest of the data/OS will make to the total storage is small,
> and having the ability to restore the odd file here or there if someone
> mucks up is worth it's weight in gold....
>
> Paul
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Andrew Raibeck <storman AT us.ibm DOT
> com>wrote:
>
>> Another solution is to use a customized schedule for this node that
>> targets
>> the desired directory:
>>
>> DEFINE SCHEDULE domain schedname OBJECTS=E:\Oracle\ OPTIONS=-SUBDIR=YES
>>
>> And keep the INCLUDE statement in dsm.opt:
>>
>> Include "E:\Oracle\...\*" 3mth_grp2_MC
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Andy Raibeck
>> IBM Software Group
>> Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development
>> Level 3 Team Lead
>> Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Hartford/IBM@IBMUS
>> Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com
>>
>> IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page:
>>
>> http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/Tivoli_Storage_Manager
>>
>> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu> wrote on 2011-07-18
>> 07:25:48:
>>
>> > From: "Lee, Gary D." <GLEE AT BSU DOT EDU>
>> > To: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
>> > Date: 2011-07-18 07:33
>> > Subject: Re: Backup specific folder only
>> > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu>
>> >
>> > Try the following.
>> >
>> > Add
>> >
>> > Exclude.dir e:\dir1
>> > Exclude.dir e:\dir2
>> > . . .
>> >
>> > For each major tree on the e: drive. This will keep tsm from
>> > traversing the trees at all.
>> > More administration, but the only thing I can think of.
>> > Exclude.dir is processed before standard excludes, therefore you
>> > cannot exclude.dir e:\ then include what you wanted.
>> >
>> > Hope this helps.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Gary Lee
>> > Senior System Programmer
>> > Ball State University
>> > phone: 765-285-1310
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On
>> > Behalf
>> Of
>> Gibin
>> > Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 2:26 AM
>> > To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>> > Subject: [ADSM-L] Backup specific folder only
>> >
>> > Thanks Paul ,Made the changes in the server dsm.opt
>> >
>> >
>> > DOMAIN E:
>> > Exclude "E:\...\*"
>> > Include "E:\Oracle\...\*" 3mth_grp2_MC
>> >
>> >
>> > Now only files/folders from "E:\Oracle" get backed up.But i noticed
>> > a problem when using the mentioned include/exclude , all the sub
>> > folders from all the other excluded folders get backed up as
>> > well.This i feel can cause unnecessary TSM DB growth .As each file/
>> > folder backed up consumes 4KB of TSM database space.
>> >
>> >
>> > Is there some way to avoid TSM backing up the sub folder structure
>> > from all the other excluded directories...??
>> >
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