Thank you.
I have restarted TSM scheduler services and it has now worked as
expected. I would have expected that the change would be effective if I
have run through the wizard in the BA Client and it said 'Scheduler
service successfully updated'. I got the clue after seeing slide 6 from
Raibeck's "TSM Client Diagnostics" ("Check the usual suspects: If you
changed the client options, did you remember to restart the
scheduler?").
Andy, you are most probably wrong then, 'exclude.dir drive:* + exclude
drive:*' works on Windows to exclude the drive from backups. The 'domain
-drive:' syntax works too but in fact I wasn't looking for a way to
exclude the whole drive, I was baffled that the normal exclude syntax
doesn't work.
The 'exclude.dir drive:....' syntax is definitely documented on multiple
places (see e.g.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/TSMC/SH26-4117-01/en_US/HTML/ans60014.htm
- I believe that I copied the exmample from this particular document (syntax
with '...' (e:\....\*), which probably is meaningless when followed by '*')).
Andy Huebner wrote:
> I do not mean to be disagreeable, but my testing has indicated that you
> cannot exclude a drive in Windows with an exclude or exclude.dir
> command. I use the domain -z: and that works.
>
> This may also have to do with versions and other stuff.
>
> Andy Huebner
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of
> Michal Mertl
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 2:20 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] dsm.opt not fully effective for server induced
> backups
>
> Thanks for the fast answer.
>
> Andrew Raibeck wrote:
> > As with any issue like this, it would help to see the detail, such as
> the
> > specific logs you are looking at, options file, server-side client
> option
> > set (if you have it), etc.
>
> Here are some more details:
>
> BA Client version 5.1.5.0
>
> dsm.opt:
> -------
> COMMMETHOD TCPIP
> NODENAME S-EU-VIE01DB01
> TCPServeraddress s-at-vie-prdb
> TCPPORT 1500
> TCPBUFFSIZE 512
> TCPNODELAY NO
> TCPWINDOWSIZE 512
> TXNBYTELIMIT 2097152
> *TXNBYTELIMIT 20480
> MEMORYEFFICIENTBACKUP NO
> LARGECOMMBUFFERS YES
> USEUNICODEFILENAME YES
> COMPRESSION NO
> SUBDIR YES
> REPLACE ALL
> SCHEDMODE PROMPTED
> SCHEDLOGNAME "C:\Program Files\Tivoli\Tsm\TSMSched.log"
> ERRORLOGNAME "C:\Program Files\Tivoli\Tsm\TSMError.log"
> SCHEDLOGRETENTION 14 D
> ERRORLOGRETENTION 14 D
> LANGUAGE AMENG
> PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE
> DATEFORMAT 4
> NUMBERFORMAT 5
> QUIET
> BACKUPREGISTRY YES
> DOMAIN all-local
> EXCLUDE "*:\_inst\...\*"
> EXCLUDE "*:\_inst\...\*.*"
> EXCLUDE "*:\...\Content IE5\...\*"
> EXCLUDE "*:\...\Content IE5\...\*.*"
> EXCLUDE "*:\...\RECYCLED\*"
> EXCLUDE "*:\...\RECYCLED\*.*"
> EXCLUDE "*:\...\cache\*"
> EXCLUDE "*:\...\cache\*.*"
> EXCLUDE "*:\microsoft uam volume\...\*.*"
> EXCLUDE "*:\microsoft uam volume\...\*"
> EXCLUDE "*:\...\ea data. sf"
> EXCLUDE "*:\...\pagefile.sys"
> EXCLUDE "*:\...\ibmbio.com"
> EXCLUDE "*:\ibmdos.com"
> EXCLUDE "*:\msdos.sys"
> EXCLUDE "*:io.sys"
> EXCLUDE.DIR "c:\MSSQL7"
> EXCLUDE.DIR "*:\recycled"
> EXCLUDE.DIR "*:\recycler"
> EXCLUDE.DIR "*:\...\system32\wins"
> EXCLUDE.DIR "*:\...\system32\LServer"
> EXCLUDE.DIR "*:\...\system32\dhcp"
> EXCLUDE.DIR "*:\...\system32\config"
> EXCLUDE.DIR "*:\system volume information"
> EXCLUDE "*:\...\system32\perflib*.dat"
> EXCLUDE.DIR "*:\...\temporary internet files"
> EXCLUDE "*:\Documents and Settings\...\ntuser.dat.LOG"
> EXCLUDE "*:\Documents and Settings\...\NTUSER.DAT"
> EXCLUDE "*:\Documents and Settings\...\usrclass.dat.LOG"
> EXCLUDE "*:\Documents and Settings\...\usrclass.dat"
> EXCLUDE "*:\Documents and Settings\...\ntuser.ini"
> EXCLUDE "*:\Allgemein\install\...\*"
> EXCLUDE "*:\Allgemein\install\...\*.*"
> EXCLUDE "*:\...\sqldata\...\*"
> EXCLUDE "*:\...\sqldata\...\*.*"
> Exclude.Dir "e:\...\*"
> -------
>
> I believe that dsm.opt shouldn't need to contain these double lines
> (with '*' and '*.*').
>
> This is the Client Option Set on the server (5.1.9.5):
> -------
> Option Sequence Override Option Value
> number
> ------------------------- -------- --------
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> DOMAIN 0 Yes all-local
> INCLEXCL 0 Yes EXCLUDE *:\_inst
> \...\*
> INCLEXCL 1 Yes EXCLUDE *:\_inst
> \...\*.*
> INCLEXCL 2 No exclude "*:
> \...\Content IE5\...\*"
> INCLEXCL 3 No exclude "*:
> \...\Content IE5\...\*.*"
> INCLEXCL 4 Yes EXCLUDE *:
> \...\RECYCLED\*
> INCLEXCL 5 Yes EXCLUDE *:
> \...\RECYCLED\*.*
> INCLEXCL 6 Yes EXCLUDE *:
> \...\cache\*
> INCLEXCL 7 Yes EXCLUDE *:
> \...\cache\*.*
> INCLEXCL 8 No exclude "*:
> \microsoft uam volume\...\*.*"
> INCLEXCL 9 No exclude "*:
> \microsoft uam volume\...\*"
> INCLEXCL 10 No exclude "*:
> \...\ea data. sf"
> INCLEXCL 11 Yes EXCLUDE *:
> \...\pagefile.sys
> INCLEXCL 12 Yes EXCLUDE *:
> \...\ibmbio.com
> INCLEXCL 13 Yes EXCLUDE *:
> \ibmdos.com
> INCLEXCL 14 Yes EXCLUDE *:
> \msdos.sys
> INCLEXCL 15 Yes EXCLUDE *:io.sys
> INCLEXCL 16 Yes EXCLUDE.dir *:
> \recycled
> INCLEXCL 17 Yes EXCLUDE.dir *:
> \recycler
> INCLEXCL 18 Yes EXCLUDE.dir *:
> \...\system32\wins
> INCLEXCL 19 Yes EXCLUDE.dir *:
> \...\system32\LServer
> INCLEXCL 20 Yes EXCLUDE.dir *:
> \...\system32\dhcp
> INCLEXCL 21 Yes EXCLUDE.dir *:
> \...\system32\config
> INCLEXCL 22 No EXCLUDE.dir "*:
> \system volume information"
> INCLEXCL 23 Yes EXCLUDE *:
> \...\system32\perflib*.dat
> INCLEXCL 24 No EXCLUDE "*:
> \Documents and Settings\...\ntuser.dat.LOG"
> INCLEXCL 25 No EXCLUDE "*:
> \Documents and Settings\...\ntuser.dat"
> INCLEXCL 26 No EXCLUDE "*:
> \Documents and Settings\...\usrclass.dat.LOG"
> INCLEXCL 27 No EXCLUDE "*:
> \Documents and Settings\...\usrclass.dat"
> INCLEXCL 28 No EXCLUDE "*:
> \Documents and Settings\...\ntuser.ini"
> INCLEXCL 29 No
> exclude.systemobject
> QUIET 0 Yes YES
> SCHEDMODE 0 Yes PROMPTED
> SUBDIR 0 Yes YES
> -------
>
>
> In the tsmerror.log on the client I see 'Invalid option
> 'EXCLUDE.SYSTEMOBJECT' found in cloptset and multiple warnings about
> duplicate include/exclude entries.
>
> There is again the small error with using '*' and '*.*'. I can clean it
> up (someobody else created all the configurations and he isn't available
> anymore) if needed.
>
> In the tsmsched.log I see that the scheduler is sending the data from e:
> (there is e.g. lines ".. ANS1228E Sending of object '\\s-eu-vie01db01\e
> $\...' failed" and ".. ANS4987 Error processing '\\s-eu-vie01db01\e
> $...': the object is in use by another process".
>
> The backup which includes e: drive won't fit in my backuppool on the
> server and often failed. But that's expected and I don't want to backup
> the multiple file backups of the database backups (that's what is on
> e:).
>
> > One thing that stands out is that, in and of itself, your exclude.dir
> > statement does not prevent the backup of files that reside in the root
> of
> > the drive.
> >
> > If you want to exclude all files on a Windows drive with exclude.dir,
> here
> > is what I recommend:
> >
> > exclude e:\*
> > exclude.dir e:\*
> >
> > (note that you don't need the \... syntax).
>
> I noticed that I would backup the files in the root of the drive but
> there aren't any there. The ... syntax was taken from an example in the
> official documentation.
>
> > Alternatively, you can use:
> >
> > domain -e:
>
> Yes, I did in effect this. I created a new client option set on the
> server specifically for this machine which has option "domain all-local
> -e:".
>
> >
> > This alternative is relatively simple, although this only affects
> domain
> > incremental backups, i.e.:
> >
> > dsmc i
> >
> > Thus you can still do backups that explicitly target this drive, like
> > this:
> >
> > dsmc i e:
> > dsmc i e:\mydir\* -subdir=yes
> >
> > Using the excludes above will prevent *any* backup of the drive.
> >
> > Andy Raibeck
> > IBM Software Group
> > Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
> > Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
> > Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com
> >
> > IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page:
> >
> http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorag
> eManager.html
> >
> > The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
> > The command line is your friend.
> > "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.
> >
> > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 2006-04-27
> > 16:19:17:
> >
> > > I have "exclude.dir e:\...\*" in a client config to prevent it from
> > > backing up the e: drive. When I run BA client, select backup and
> local
> > > filesystems and run estimate, it looks reasonable (the total cannot
> be
> > > including e: drive). I am not now completely sure but I also think I
> did
> > > run it by hand and it didn't backup e:. The backup started by the
> > > existing association on the server seems to ignore at least this
> setting
> > > in dsm.opt. What can be wrong?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Michal
>
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