You say you are trying to exclude the DFS shares for obviouse reasons.  There 
isn't any obviouse reasons to me.  It is real user data that should be backed 
up.  Now if you are using DFS replication and what you mean is you don't want 
to back data in a DFS link that is a replica of data somewhere else then send 
us the path name for the folder that is shared.  Then send us your exclude that 
you think doesn't work.

I have set up multiple large Server based and active directory based DFS roots. 
 I have done this with both Windows 2000 and Windows 2003.  In all cases we 
were using TSM to backup the data.  In many cases the DFS Root was on one of 
the file servers.  The data itself was on multiple file servers as you would 
expect with DFS.  Each server had a TSM client and each client was expected to 
backup all of the data on the server it was running on.  We only excluded 
shares that were linked to through DFS when they were a replica of data that 
was somewhere else.  For those we did have excludes on the file servers were 
the replica's were so that we did not back up that data twice.

On a side note one extra thing we did was use the DFSCMD to backup the DFS root 
and links as documented by MS.  Here is a sample of what we did.

DFSCMD /VIEW \\ad.corp1.com\Root1 /BATCH >> "C:\DFSBackup\DFSRestore.bat"

Jon Adams <Jon.Adams AT PREMERA DOT COM> wrote:
This would be the DFS shares on the target clients.


___________________________
With regards,

- Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
TSM_User
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 6:53 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: TSM, Windows and DFS

Are you talking about the server with the DFS Root and the DFS links? Or do
you mean the server that the shares are on? If the shares are being backed
up via another system then it might be that someone manaully backed it up
while the links were mapped.

More clarification please?


Jon Adams wrote:
Anyone have anything on TSM and Windows DFS? We're trying to exclude the DFS
shares (for obvious reason) and not having any luck. Interestingly enough,
we get this when querying includes/excludes, but can find no documentation
that states how you would provide a DFS include/exclude:

Excl All *\Pagefile.sys Operating System Excl All *\hiberfil.sys Operating
System Excl All *\...\*.crmlog Operating System No DFS include/exclude
statements defined.


With regards,
_______________________________________________

Jon R. Adams
Systems Engineer II
Infrastructure Technical Support, OSS
Premera Blue Cross
Work: 425-918-5770 / mailto:jon.adams AT premera DOT com



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