EXCLUDE.DIR statements should not end with the directory delimiter.

Right: EXCLUDE.DIR C:\MyDir
Wrong: EXCLUDE.DIR C:\MyDir\

Also note that EXCLUDE.DIR is alway processed before INCLUDE or EXCLUDE,
so sandwiching EXCLUDE.DIR between other INCLUDE or EXCLUDE statements
implies a processing sequence that does not match actual processing, and
could confuse others. A more accurate positioning of these statements
would thus be:

 exclude /.../*
 include /data/.../*
 exclude /.../SSC*
 exclude /.../ssc*

 exclude.dir /data/xyz/abctest/fehler/
 exclude.dir /data/xyz/fpcp/fehler/
 exclude.dir /data/abc/abctest/fehler/
 exclude.dir /data/abc/abctest/tmp/
 exclude.dir /data/abc/bwup/fehler/
 exclude.dir /data/abc/bwup/fehler/
 exclude.dir /data/tmp/
 exclude.dir /data/abc/abctest/logs/
 exclude.dir /data/xyz/abctest/logs/

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 09/06/2006
02:01:10 AM:

> Hello TSMers,
>
> could somebody please give me an idea whats wrong with this incl/excl
list?
> The problem is the following:
> The backup runs, but complets with failures named "...file not found" in
> some excluded directories; those directories are excluded,
> becourse they have only temporary files with a short lifetime inside -
> nothing to backup.
> This error occurs only in /data/abc/abctest/logs/ and exclude.dir
> /data/abc/bwup/fehler/. Why??
> This is the list:
>
> exclude /.../*
> include /data/.../*
> exclude.dir /data/xyz/abctest/fehler/
> exclude.dir /data/xyz/fpcp/fehler/
> exclude.dir /data/abc/abctest/fehler/
> exclude.dir /data/abc/abctest/tmp/
> exclude.dir /data/abc/bwup/fehler/
> exclude.dir /data/abc/bwup/fehler/
> exclude.dir /data/tmp/
> exclude.dir /data/abc/abctest/logs/
> exclude.dir /data/xyz/abctest/logs/
> exclude /.../SSC*
> exclude /.../ssc*
>
>
> TIA
>
> Dierk