We use a domain statement to "segregate" our "normal" filesystems (backed
up by an ADSM schedule) and those residing on large storage arrays
(backed up individually under control of a cron job).  To help "remember"
to add in new filesystems to the domain statement, we have a nightly
script (AIX cron job) that gathers the names of all of the local
(non-NFS) filesystems and compares that to the domain statement and the
list of filesystems in the storage array script.  We get notified (via
Email) for removed filesystems (filesystems in the domain statement or
storage array script, but not on the machine) and added filesystems
(filesystems on the machine that are not in the domain statement or
storage array script AND NOT in a filesystem exclude file used by the
script).

The script just recently got a bit more complicated in that we now have
to recognize filesystems mounted from NetApp boxes as if they were local
filesystems.

>
> "Frank M. Ramaekers Jr." <frankr AT IBM DOT NET> writes:
>
> > See Include/Exclude
>
> A lot of other folks have said the same thing. Thanks to all the
> responses.
>
> We are using include/exclude. The problem is that even if you exclude
> files using the include/exclude file, ADSM still traverses (and backs
> up, if I recall correctly) the entire directory structure. In the case
> of some of the filesystems we don't want to back up, we *really* don't
> want to do that. (One example is our Usenet news spool. Millions of
> files in thousands of directories, and it adds hours to the nightly
> backups to "exclude /var/news/spool/.../*". Since we'll never care
> about restoring *anything* in that filesystem, we have a DOMAIN that
> excludes it. I was just thinking it would be nice if the DOMAIN could
> exclude the things I don't want, rather than including the things I do
> want. Like I said, it's not a big deal, I just fear that one day I'm
> going to add a new filesystem to the news server and forget to add it
> to the DOMAIN.....
>
> Geoff
>
> --
> Geoff Allen, geoff AT wsu DOT edu, <http://www.wsu.edu/~geoff/>
>
> Computers are useless.  They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
>


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