OK, thanks. It helps to know the context of the question.   :-)

The EXCLUDE statement (without and . extension) excludes only files, not
directories. So include/exclude statements like this:

   exclude *:\...\*
   INCLUDE D:\Oracle\backup\dev8i.dmp MCBKUP4

Will back up the one file plus all directories. It should *not* back up
other files, though. But it is true that traversing the directories could
take a while.

Some ideas to get around this:

Create a schedule just for this client (if it isn't already dedicated to
the one client) and use the OBJECTS option to indicate the one file you
want to process:

   OBJECTS="D:\Oracle\backup\dev8i.dmp MCBKUP4"

Create a text file, say, C:\BACKUP.LIST, on the client machine that
contains just the fully-qualified name of the file you wish to back up.
Create a schedule just for this client (if it isn't already dedicated to
the one client) and code the OPTIONS setting like this:

   OPTIONS="-FILELIST=C:\BACKUP.LIST"

This will cause the client to process only the file(s) listed in
C:\BACKUP.LIST.

See Mark Morrison's post for yet another solution.

There was a not-too-dissimilar discussion about this last year. You can
find a post I made at http://msgs.adsm.org/cgi-bin/get/adsm0108/451.html.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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The problem is that TSM is still backing up all the data on the client. As
I
understand we shold be able to exclude everything but one file. This is
what
we are trying to do.