Try this as a simple troubleshooting technique. If they are AIX filesystems add
this ONE statement to the opt file:
exclude.fs     /db1/oracle

If the filesystem is locally mounted and in etc/filesystem should be excluded.


"Glass, Peter" wrote:

> TSM seems to ignore our exclude statements, no matter which wildcard syntax
> we use. For example, we have filesystems called /db1/oracle, /db2/oracle,
> etc. through /db30/oracle that we want to exclude. We've tried:
> exclude /db[1-30]/oracle/.../*
> and
> exclude /db*/oracle/.../*
> and
> exclude /.../oracle/.../*
> without success: in each case, the backups still try to backup the files
> under these directories. The backups usually fail to pick up the files,
> because the files change during the backup, which is why we want to exclude
> them.
> Are we misunderstanding how wildcards are supposed to work with exclude
> statements? Or is this a product bug?
>
> Peter Glass
> Distributed Storage Management (DSM)
> Wells Fargo Services Company
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> > * peter.k.glass AT wellsfargo DOT com
> >