Hello,
the use of admin commands can be very confusing when spaces are
involved.
This case even more so.It all depends which admin interface you use :
A) When you use the GUI :
    The file specification MUST be surrounded with single quotes.
    Therefore you need to enter the following in the "Option Value"
    entry box:
      exclude 'c:\windows\Temporary Internet Files\...\*'
B) When you use the admin command line in loop mode :
    The whole exclude statement must be surrounde with double quotes.
    Therefore, you need to enter the following :
      define clientopt OPTSET INCLEXCL "exclude 'c:\windows\Temporary
Internet
Files\...\*'"
C) When you use the admin command line in batch :
    This is where it is starting to get complicated. The only way I was
able
    to get this to work was to use only single quotes. The command looks
like
this :
      dsmadmc -id=admin -pa=admin define clientopt
         OPTSET INCLEXCL 'exclude ''c:\windows\Temporary Internet
Files\...\*'''
    As you can see, I had to use 3 pairs on sigle quotes to make this
work
    properly in this case. I would have expected the command to be the
same
    as B) but could not make it work.
D) When you use the WEB admin COMMAND box :
    The command to enter is the same as in B)
E) When you use the WEB admin "client options" icon :
    same as in A)
In all cases, the files are properly excluded when using a nodename
associated
to the named client options set.
Now, you must understand that the options that the Exclude/Include
options
in the client options set are "additive" options and will not override
the
exclude/include options in the client options file. Also, the sequence
number
in the client option set determines the order in which the
include/exclude
statements are "added" to the existing include/exclude statements of the
client options file. The statements from the client options set are
added at the
end of the include/exclude statements of the options file, in sequence
order.
For example, suppose you define 1 option in a client option set like
this :
   define clientopt OPTSET INCLEXCL "include a:\test\*" seq=0
and suppose you have the following exclude statement in your options
file
   exclude a:\test\*
then the client option from the client options set is added to the
existing
options which forms the following :
   exclude a:\test\*
   include a:\test\*
Now since the statements are read from bottom up, the files under
a:\test
will be backed up. Now suppose you have define the following options set
:
   define clientopt OPTSET INCLEXCL "include a:\test\*" seq=0
   define clientopt OPTSET INCLEXCL "exclude a:\test\*" seq=1
and suppose you have the following include statement in your options
file :
    exclude a:\MYDIR\*
then the resulting include/exclude statements would be :
   exclude a:\MYDIR\*
   include a:\test\*
   exclude a:\test\*
and this time the the files under a:\test\ will not be backed up. I will
agree
that the documentation on this subject is not all that clear. Hopefully,
this
will help clarify a few things.


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Rejean Larivee
Rejean Larivee
ADSM Level 2 Support






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Eric,

Try using single quotes as in:
exclude 'c:\windows\Temporary Internet Files\...\*'

Now, if you or anyone else can tell me the answer to the following
question, then we're really getting somewhere:
If you have an Include in clientopt (on the server), and an Exclude in
dsm.opt (on the client), then which comes first?  My question assumes
the
Include and Exclude refer to the same filemask and that the Override
option
does not come into play.

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Date:    Wed, 16 Sep 1998 14:36:42 +0200
From:    "Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM" <Eric-van.Loon AT KLM DOT NL>
Subject: Exclude through clientopt
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Hi ADSM-ers!
I would like to exclude c:\windows\Temporary Internet Files\...\* from
the backup. I tried adding the following lines through the GUI:

exclude "c:\windows\Temporary Internet Files\...\*"
result:
09/16/1998 14:25:12 ANR2023E DEFINE CLIENTOPT: Extraneous parameter -
c:\windows\Temporary.

"exclude c:\windows\Temporary Internet Files\...\*"
result:
09/16/1998 14:25:12 ANR2023E DEFINE CLIENTOPT: Extraneous parameter -
exclude.

exclude c:\windows\Temporary Internet Files\...\*
result:
09/16/1998 14:23:11 Management class 'INTERNET' named on include/exclude
line 0 does not exist.

What should I enter to exclude this?
Thanks in advance!
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon