Hi,

Define a new node for this directory. Have it exclude everything but this
directory. Define a pre- and postschedule command. And last define its own
back-up schedule and install a new scheduler service. It then is completely
independ of the back-ups en schedules for the "normal" part of the server.

Regard,

Karel

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Richard Anderson [mailto:rna AT FRONTIERNET DOT NET]
> Verzonden: woensdag 20 augustus 2003 0:49
> Aan: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Onderwerp: incremental blocked by inclexcl file
>
>
> I am using TSM  Client Version 4, Release 2, Level 1.0 on an
> AIX system.
> I have a directory (/s/sirsi/Unicorn) that contains 60 GB of
> data files,
> the largest of which are frequently updated.  The application
> that updates
> these files must be kept running with very little down time.
>
> We have nightly incremental backups running via the scheduler.  They
> usually start at about 22:00, but the actual start time
> varies, depending
> on what other backups the server is performing.  In order to prevent
> /s/sirsi/Unicorn from being backed up while the application
> is live, we
> exclude the directory and its children in the inclexcl file.
>
> I would like to write a script to be run from crontab that
> shuts down the
> application, does an incremental backup, and then restarts the
> application.  However, I find that because the directory is
> excluded in
> the inclexcl file, the incremental job of course fails to
> backup anything.
>
> So... Is there any way to override the inclexcl file temporarily while
> manually doing an incremental command?  I can find no command
> line option
> that would help.  And my attempts to create a custom user dsm.opt file
> pointing to a different inclexcl file only resulted in an error:
> ANS1036S Invalid option 'INCLEXCL' found in options file
> '/s/sirsi/dsm.opt'
>
> Any suggestions would be welcome.  Thank you.
>
> Richard Anderson
> Stanford University Libraries
>