Exclude Everything
Then Include only those files you wish backed up!

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> From:         Bill Colwell[SMTP:bcolwell AT DRAPER DOT COM]
> Sent:         Wednesday, August 12, 1998 11:43 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: client option sets and exclude lists
>
> In <2C396693FBDED111AEF60000F84104A70F06F6@indyexch_fddi.indy.tce.com>, on
> 08/12/98
>    at 09:36 AM, Hilton Tina <HiltonT AT TCE DOT COM> said:
>
> >I can't get it to work for include/exclude either, even when I changed
> the
> >option to inclexcl.  Here's one entry in my clientoptset, yet it still
> gets
> >backed up.  Is there something else that needs to be done to use it?
>
> >         Option: INCLEXCL
> >Sequence number: 15
> >       Override: No
> >   Option Value: exclude /.../core
>
> >iscm007:/ >dsmc s core
> >ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager
> >Command Line Backup Client Interface - Version 3, Release 1, Level 0.3
> (C)
> >Copyright IBM Corporation, 1990, 1998, All Rights Reserved.
>
> >Selective Backup function invoked.
>
> >Node Name: ISCM007
> >Session established with server ADSM: AIX-RS/6000
> >  Server Version 3, Release 1, Level 1.2
> >  Server date/time: 08/12/1998 09:17:22  Last access: 08/11/1998 23:59:54
>
> >Normal File-->                 0 /core [Sent]
> >Selective Backup processing of 'core' finished without failure.
>
>
> You defined it correctly in the server so don't keep thrashing around
> defining it differently.  The problem is that there is a bug in the
> 3.1.0.3
> clients that the client  doesn't see or use server inclexcl statements
> that
> have "/..." in them.  The bug will be fixed in the next client fix, or so
> I'm told by IBM.
>
> --
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> Bill Colwell
> C. S. Draper Lab
> Cambridge, Ma.
> bcolwell AT draper DOT com
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