On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 08:46, Richard Foster wrote:
> I have an NT server running SAP/Oracle. I am backing up the Oracle DB with
> TDP for R3, and thus want to exclude these files from TSM incremental. I
> cannot get it to work.
>
> The book gives an example: Quote
> Exclude all files and directories in any tmp directory that might exist
> exclude ?:\...\tmp\...\*
> Unquote
>
> So I tried
> exclude ?:\...\saparch\...\*
>
> I have also tried
> exclude *:\...\saparch\...\*
> exclude *:\...\saparch\...\*.*
> and in desperation
> exclude f:\oracle\XXX\saparch\*
> but each time, after the incremental, I have 15 active files registered in
> the TSM DB from this directory.

Do you have any include.dir lines in your option file? If you do, they
override all excludes, no matter what their placement.

If you want to see what TSM thinks should be included or excluded, run

        dsmc q inclexcl

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Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)