On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Joel Fuhrman wrote:

> We have a backup.exclude file, which hasn't changed in 6 month, which
> contains the line "exclude.fs /checkpoint".  On day last week, ADSM suddenly
> decides to back up the /checkpoint file system.
>
> As any one else experienced a surprise backup of an excluded filesystem?
>
> AIX ADSM client 3.1.0.5
> AIX ADSM server 3.1.2.1

Yes.  In my cases, I have seen it start backing up the cdrom, and an NFS
mountpoint which is actually an optical (jukebox) filesystem.  I have seen
this with Sun ADSM server 3.1.2.0 and Sun client 3.1.0.3 and 3.1.0.5.

Steve (unVMix Systems Programmer/Dude) Roder
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