I asked a similar question some time ago.  My understanding is
that adsm will back up the directory structure regardless of
how the include/exclude list is set up.  As you noticed, though,
files in the directories you wanted to exclude were not backed up.
In short this is a feature, not a bug.

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== Original Message ==
== Original Message ==

> I am trying to exclude several file systems from being backed up and am havin
g
> trouble setting it up.
>
> Here is a list of the file systems that I don't want backed up.
>
> /export/dump                    ; contains directories mrcs1-mrcs4
> /export/swap                    ; contains directories mrcs1-mrcs4
> /export/tmp/mrcs1
> /export/tmp/mrcs2
> /export/tmp/mrcs3
> /export/tmp/mrcs4
>
> Here is what my include/exclude file looks like.
>
> EXclude /tmp
> EXclude /.../.sh_history
> EXclude /export/dump
> EXclude /export/swap/.../*
> EXclude /export/tmp/.../*
>
> I have also tried leaving the '.../*' off from the excludes for the /export
> file systems which didn't work.
>
> Firing up the GUI shows that these file systems were indeed backed up and the
y
> appear in list of file systems available for restore/retrieve.  Taking a clos
er
> look shows that any files that are in these file systems were not backed up b
ut
> that any directories were.
>
> I am totally at a loss as to how to make it ignore these file systems. Can
> anyone shed any light on this?
>
> Thanks/k
>
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