Hello George,

In order to prevent Y: from being backed up as part of the regular
incremental backup process, it should be sufficient to simply specify the
DOMAIN statement as you have done:

   DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL -Y:

It should not be necessary to add EXCLUDE statements for this.

Possibilities that come to mind:

- The scheduler service is configured to use a different client options
files than the one you updated.

- The schedule definition on the TSM server has a non-blank OBJECTS setting
that includes Y:, e.g.,:

   DEF SCH ... ACTION=INCREMENTAL OBJECTS="C: Y:"

In this case, the OBJECTS setting overrides the DOMAIN setting.

If you *were* to use EXCLUDE statements to prevent backup of files on Y:
then this would be better:

=====================================
* Suppress backup of files in the root of Y:
EXCLUDE Y:\*

* Suppress traversal and backup of all directories on Y:
EXCLUDE.DIR Y:\*
=====================================

But again, these should be entirely unnecessary.

Best regards,

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development
Level 3 Team Lead
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Hartford/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page:
http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/Tivoli_Storage_Manager

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu> wrote on 2011-01-20
12:41:30:

> From: "Huebschman, George J." <gjhuebschman AT LEGGMASON DOT COM>
> To: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
> Date: 2011-01-20 12:42
> Subject: Client domain statement exclude not working as expected
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu>
>
> I have a Windows Client that is not excluding a drive that is (seems to
> be) excluded from the Client Domain statement.
>
> To check if it was actually picked up, I queried the client options.
>
> I also stopped and started the TSM Scheduler.
>
> I don't see anything in a Client Option Set with "Force" set to yes, but
> this Client is not using an optionset in any case.
>
>
>
> We think we have fixed it by using an "Exclude "Y:\" statement, but we
> shouldn't have to, correct?
>
> And if so, what is wrong?
>
>
>
> Client Version 6, Release 1, Level 3.0
>
> Node Name: DevServer
>
> Session established with server AIXServer: AIX-RS/6000
>
>   Server Version 5, Release 5, Level 1.0
>
>
>
> tsm> q options domain
>
>                    DOMAIN: ALL-LOCAL
>
>                           -\\rrdwcrbgiwov001\y$
>
>
>
>
>
> *** DSM.OPT ***
>
> NODENAME ServerName
>
> **communications options
>
> TCPSERVERADDRESS aixServer
>
> TCPBuffsize        31
>
> TCPWindowsize      63
>
> Resourceutilization 1
>
>
>
> **processing options
>
> schedlogretention 15
>
> PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE
>
> backupregistry yes
>
> * Testflag vsssystemprovider incompatible with this version
>
>
>
> **data options
>
> DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL -Y:
>
> Exclude "*:\...\pagefile.sys"
>
> Exclude "C:\winnt\*.tmp"
>
> Exclude "C:\winnt\temp\*.tmp"
>
> Exclude "?:\...\...\*.pst"
>
> Exclude "B:\"
>
> Exclude "*:\RECYCLER"
>
> Exclude "*:\...\system32\config\*"
>
> Exclude "C:\winnt\system32\Perf*.dat"
>
> Exclude.dir "C:\documents and settings"
>
> Exclude "Y:\"
>
> REVOKEREMOTEACCESS ACCESS
>
>
>
> George Huebschman
> Storage Support Team, Media Librarian
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