Hi Chris,

Do you have a dsm.opt entry that specifies '/' only?


Trevor

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Chris Logan [SMTP:cjl AT J-SAINSBURY.CO DOT UK]
        Sent:   Wednesday, 4 March 1998 19:34
        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Subject:        inclexcl problems.

        Having recently been given the task of re-activating previously
installed
        ADSM HP-UX clients (both client and server are version 2). One
of them is
        interpreting the inclexcl file in a particularly obtuse manner.

        the dsm.sys file has the line

        INCLEXCL        inclexcl

        and in the $DSM_DIR directory, the file inclexcl has the
following

        include /.../*

        exclude /data/jsping/ingdb/.../*

        exclude /data/jsping/inglog/.../*

        exclude /nfs/.../*

        exclude /sysxfer/.../*

        exclude /tmp/.../*

        exclude /usr/tmp/.../*

        exclude /data/tmp/.../*


        This appears to be a generic file, common to other, working
servers.
        However this particular server only backs up the root (/) file
system, and
        nothing else. Others with this file back up every file system,
from /
        onwards, regardless of mount points, with the exception of the
specifically
        excluded file systems.

        So I think I've inherited a duff setup. Has anybody had a
similar problem
        which they can share with me?

        Chris.

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