Bruce,

Thanks.  That makes perfect sense.

Bruce Elrick wrote:
>
> Ray...
>
> You should note that the servername parameter defines the start of a stanza
> which is ended by the start of the next stanza or the end of the file.  You
> additions to the end of the file affect the last servername stanza (adsmTour)
> which you obviously were not using.  Deleting that stanza is one way, moving
> your additional lines to before the start of the adsmTour stanza (thus into 
> the
> localSrv stanza)  does it as well.  Of course, you don't really need the
> adsmTour stanza.
>
> Cheers...
> Bruce
>
> Ray Pratts wrote:
>
> > Ray,
> >
> > I had the same problem on some systems when I use the dsm.sys which was
> > installed by default.  The serves which have had problems have dsm.sys
> > that look like the one below:
> >
> >         *//ADSM_LOCAL_SERVER_STANZA
> >         Servername         localSrv
> >         TCPPort            1500
> >         TCPServeraddress   f2n5e
> >         PASSWORDAccess     Generate
> >         *//END_ADSM_LOCAL_SERVER_STANZA
> >
> >         *//ADSM_TOUR_STANZA
> >         Servername         adsmTour
> >         TCPPort            32767
> >         TCPServeraddress   f2n5e
> >         PASSWORDAccess     Generate
> >         *//END_ADSM_TOUR_STANZA
> >
> >         ERRORLOGRETENTION  7
> >         SCHEDLOGRETENTION  7
> >         INCLEXCL           /usr/lpp/adsm/bin/inclexcl
> >
> > I added the last three lines which were all ignored.  However, the
> > following dsm.sys works just fine.
> >
> >         Servername         localSrv
> >         TCPServeraddress   f2n5c
> >         PASSWORDAccess     Generate
> >         ERRORLOGRETENTION  7
> >         SCHEDLOGRETENTION  7
> >         INCLEXCL           /usr/lpp/adsm/bin/inclexcl
> >
> > I deleted the first dsm.sys and keyed in the entries I wanted and the
> > include, exclude statements worked as expected.  I cannot tell you why
> > the first file causes a problem, I just know that once I used the second
> > file and ran "dsmc incr" the files I wanted excluded were expired as
> > expected and were no longer backed up.
> > Ray Baughman wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm running ADSM version 3 on an AIX platform.  My problem is ADSM is not
> > > reconizing my Include Exclude list.  All items are being backup using the
> > > default management class.  Any sugestions would be appreciated
> > >
> > > Ray Baughman
> > > National Machinery Co.
> > > Tiffin, OH 44883
> > > rbaughman AT nationalmachinery DOT com
> >
> > --
> > Ray Pratts              Pinnacle Computer Solutions Corp.
> > Tel. 281-893-3249       rpratts AT pinnaclecs DOT com

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Tel. 281-893-3249       rpratts AT pinnaclecs DOT com