Date:           October 16, 2002                        Time: 7:31 AM
From:   Jerry Lawson
                The Hartford Insurance Group
860     547-2960                jlawson AT thehartford DOT com
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First - let me thank you all for the responses to my original question.
Your answers have gotten me thinking some - I say some, because at my age,
it's hard to get everything going again, and I suffer from "senior moments"
too often.

Most of the answers revolved around the suggestion that I could exclude
something - either the files themselves, or the System Object itself if I
get the newest client.  This seems to me to be treating the symptom, rather
than the problem - if I exclude them, obviously, I can never restore them
(DUH!).  If these do get corrupted or deleted, it would appear that I could
be in for another bout with my desktop support folks - they just had my
Laptop for 3 weeks - I'm not eager to deal with them again.  Now I will be
the first to admit that I'm not MS Certified on any OS, and so the idea of
excluding the whole System Object is scary as well - doesn't that include a
big portion of registry information if I need to do a complete restore?  Or
is the idea of a Bare Metal restore with TSM one that has died?

In my (sometimes overly simplistic) mind, I remember the ADSM class I
attended where the instructor identified how a file was determined to have
changed - either the date, the time, or the size has changed.  Has TSM
changed this philosophy?  After all, I look at the files in question, and
nothing has changed that I can see externally.  Shouldn't there be a better
approach than to say "well, they're a part of the system object, and
therefore you need to exclude them."  Shouldn't the software be smart enough
to figure this out?

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                                                     Jerry (still tilting at
windmills)



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