Hi,

I am currently excluding directories/files from being included in my
backups.  I have an area that contains daily database dumps.  The db dumps
are created every morning at 1am.  The customer service level agreement
calls for retaining the db dumps for eight days, so we have created an
archive management class that archives the /DBDumparea/.../* every morning
and manages that area without us having to modify our incremenatl management
class that is used more for disaster recovery of the node.  So to accomplish
this, we exclude the /DBDumparea from incremenatls.  To do this, I have put
the following lines in my client systems options file (dsm.sys).

*// ADSM_LOCAL_SERVER_STANZA
Servername        SERVERNAME
TCPPort           1500
TCPServeraddress  <hostanme>
Passwordaccess    generate
SCHEDLOGRETENTION 5
inclexcl          /usr/lpp/adsm/bin/inclexcl
*// End_ADSM_LOCAL_SERVER_STANZA

I also created a file in /usr/lpp/adsm/bin called inclexcl, the contents of
which looks like:

exclude /unix
exclude /tmp
exclude /.../core
exclude /.../.SpaceMan/.../*
exclude /DBDumparea/.../*

Also keep in mind that changes made to these files will require that the
processes reading these files will need to be restarted, ie., the sched
daemon, or in my case both the sched daemon & the archive management process
needed to be recycled when I make changes the the inclexcl file or the
dsm.sys.

Ciao,
James

From: "Vraspir, Mary J." <MJVraspir AT WEST DOT COM>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: exclude does not work in AIX?
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 10:51:53 -0500

Mark,
I have not yet got the inclexcl to work properly on aix or hp.  I included
every iteration of exclude "this filespace" in my inclexcl and was still
backing up unwanted data.
My immediate work around (support's suggestion) is to put the desired
filespaces in the dsm.opt file.  This works fine BUT I am still backing up
the files I wanted to exclude (core, dsmerror.log, dsmsched.log, etc...)
Any other suggestions?  I went through my config with support and all seems
right.
Thanks
Mary Vraspir
West Teleservices
Omaha, NE


        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Mark Owens [SMTP:Mark_Owens AT PRODIGY DOT NET]
        Sent:   Monday, May 17, 1999 9:52 AM
        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Subject:        Re: exclude does not work in AIX?

        You want to code these statements in

        /usr/lpp/adsm/bin/include.exclude. Then make sure you have coded

        inclexcl             /usr/lpp/adsm/bin/include.exclude
in dsm.sys.

        William Wang wrote:

        > Dear ADSMers,
        > I installed ADSM 3.1.20 in my AIX 43P which is running AIX
4.2.1.
When I
        > add the following two lines into /usr/lpp/adsm/bin/dsm.sys, The
exclude
        > does not work at all. What I want to do is exclude all of the
machine,
        > and then I can use include to perform a incremental backup.
Would
you
        > please kindly tell me, how can I use exclude?
        >
        > exclude /*
        > exclude /.../*
        >
        > Thanks in advance!
        > William Wang

        --
        Mark Owens

        Prodigy Communications Corporation
        1565 Front Street
        Yorktown Heights, N.Y. 10598
        914.448.1912

        Mark_Owens AT prodigy DOT net

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