Hi kelly and all,
        I agree with you. But I would like to ask a hypothetical question
relating to this. Consider a configuration where I have two server side
schedules(incremental) backing up c: drive  and d: drive respectively and
(mutually exclusively). Does the ADSM server treat the these drives as
excluded or does it go as per the include-exclude list in the dsm.opt on the
client machine.

Thanks and regards

sri