Thanks for the reply, Andrew!

Since you asked, here is my problem background:

To keep down the amount we backup during the night, we only want to backup
those three directories on our office servers during the business week.

On weekends, we want to 'catch up' and backup everything.

Our remote offices are mostly connected with T1's, a few places have several
machines we backup and those have T3's.

The only reason for possibly excluding the objects on the weekend backups is
to keep down redundancy of data being backed up.

Part of this is because our TSM server is a little to small (not enough
disk, and they are not high performance disk either, but all that is another
story).

Does this make sense?  Or am I blowing smoke and not seeing the big picture?
... Thanks again ... JC

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:storman AT US.IBM DOT COM]
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 11:17 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: INCL/EXCL again - backup just some directories

If you intend to juggle include/exclude lists around, then I definitely do
not recommend that; use two different nodes, each with its own options
file, instead. Also, your include statements need '\...\*' at the end of
them.

However, an alternate suggestion:

- For the daily backups, why not define a schedule that addresses only
those objects you want to back up?

   def sch mydomain myschedname
      objects="d:\apps\* d:\group\* d:\home\*"
      options=-subdir=yes

- For the weekly backups, just do regular incremental backup against the
D: drive. Is it really necessary to exclude the apps, group, and home
directories? (I ask this as a way of trying to understanding the
underlying aspects of the backup requirement).

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 10/28/2004
08:45:57:

> Yes, again.  This is something that never seems to stick correctly in my
> brain...
>
>
>
> I have some windows machines, where I do a normal TSM backup weekly.
>
>
>
> I want to do a backup of just certain directories and their content
daily.
> The directories I want to backup also have sub-directories within them.
>
>
>
> Should an options file like this do the trick?  Do you have other
> suggestions?
>
> This will be a secondary options file for just the daily backup:
>
>
>
> DOMAIN D:                   -- every thing I want today is on the D
Drive.
>
> Exclude                        "D:*.*"
>
> Include              "D:\APPS"
>
> Include              "D:\GROUP"
>
> Include              "D:\HOME"
>
>
>
> The options for the WEEKEND backup would have
>
> DOMAIN           ALL-LOCAL
>
> Exclude.dir        "D:\APPS"
>
> Exclude.dir        "D:\GROUP"
>
> Exclude.dir        "D:\HOME"
>
>
>
> ...
>
> Setting up the TSM scheduler is now an issue.  I need a separate
schedule
> for the weekly and the daily backups, but I want it to use the TSM
> scheduler, so I seem to need separate client names for each.  Is this
> correct?
>
>
>
> TIA for your time and suggestions. ... JC