In our organization we have a hole in the process between our unix and backup 
teams.  

We use includes vs. excludes for our misc. filesystem type backups.  

The Unix team rarely tells us when they add a new filesystem on a server.  At 
current we have left it at a "If you don't tell us we don't know about it" but 
that is neither proactive nor productive.  

One of the members of our backup team that was formerly a member of the storage 
team has a script in place that sends him an email whenever a filesystem is 
added to a Unix server.  His suggestion is that we take the initiative and add 
these filesystems to the backups whenever a new one comes in.  

My thought is while that is great perhaps its time to move to an "excludes" 
type of system, granted its a manual effort across hundreds of Unix servers and 
we will probably have to manage the excludes in many the same ways...  

Thoughts?  Am I making sense?

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