Re: backing up only 1 directory on Windows

Hmmmmm... I'm surprised you didn't get a syntax error on the "include.dir"
statement, as that is not a supported option.

The following isn't pretty, but it might do what you need:

   * Exclude all files in root of each drive.
   exclude *:\*

   * Exclude all directories on all drives other than C:.
   exclude.dir [abd-z]:\*

   * Exclude all directories on C: except for C:\Users.
   exclude.dir c:\[a-tv-z0-9]*
   exclude.dir c:\U[a-rt-z0-9]*
   exclude.dir c:\Us[a-df-z0-9]*
   exclude.dir c:\Use[a-qs-z0-9]*
   exclude.dir c:\User[a-rt-z0-9]*
   exclude.dir c:\Users?*

This should catch most of the stuff. If you use other characters in
directory names, you can stick them between the square brackets as well.
For example, to prevent backing up a hypothetical directory named
C:\user$, you could rewrite the EXCLUDE.DIRs as:

   exclude.dir C:\[a-tv-z0-9$]*
   exclude.dir C:\U[a-rt-z0-9$]*
   ...etc.

Then C:\Users and its files and subdirectories will be backed up by
default.

If you want to add a little extra protection, you could do this:

   * Exclude all files except C:\Users and its subdirectories.
   exclude *:\...\*
   include c:\users\...\*

   * Exclude all directories on all drives other than C:.
   exclude.dir [abd-z]:\*

   * Exclude all directories on C: except for C:\Users.
   exclude.dir c:\[a-tv-z0-9$]*
   exclude.dir c:\U[a-rt-z0-9$]*
   exclude.dir c:\Us[a-df-z0-9$]*
   exclude.dir c:\Use[a-qs-z0-9$]*
   exclude.dir c:\User[a-rt-z0-9$]*
   exclude.dir c:\Users?*

Then if someone slips in a name similar to C:\Users, but with a character
not covered in the list between the brackets (C:\User%, for example), at
least only the directory structure will be backed up, but not the files.

Yes, an include.dir option would be nice...

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Tivoli Systems
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
e-mail: araibeck AT us.ibm DOT com

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Joel Fuhrman <joelf AT CAC.WASHINGTON DOT EDU>
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I have a Windows system running TSM client 4.2.0.0 from which I want to
backup just the directory 'C:\Users' and all of its subdirectories and
files.  I don't want to backup any other directories or files from that
system.  I tried these dsm.opt specifications:

   exclude.dir "C:\*"
   include.dir "C:\Users\...*"

A gui initiated incremental backup, excluded everything, including
C:\Users\...\*, from the C: drive.

Can you suggest the settings that will do what I want?