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Re: [ADSM-L] Expiring Files that Have Been Exluded

2007-03-28 11:34:22
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Expiring Files that Have Been Exluded
From: Andrew Carlson <naclosagc AT GMAIL DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:33:55 -0500
I understand this, but I have lines from the output of the incremental with
inclexcl that is expiring files.  It appears that it is expiring all but 2,
which is my retonly parm in my management class.

On 3/28/07, Schneider, Jim <jschneider AT ussco DOT com> wrote:

Andy,

The exclude statements prevent files from being backed up incrementally.
The management class determines how long the files are retained (number
of versions or number of days).  Files that have been backed up are
expired according to the management class rules.

Regards,
Jim Schneider

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Andrew Carlson
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 10:15 AM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] Expiring Files that Have Been Exluded

We have a situation where we have two entries in our dsm.sys.  One of
the
entries contains an inclexcl that excludes certain database filesystems,
though the exlclude is using exclude not exclude.fs.  The other has no
inclexcl, so that when the DB person runs their backup script, the files
are
backed up.  He is using selelctive backup statements.  We thought this
all
was working, until we noticed, because we needed a restore, that we did
not
have as many backup versions as we thought we should.  What we
discovered,
is that the backup using the inclexcl list is expiring backups in those
directory.filesystems even though they are excluded.  Is this the way it
works?  Would it work the same way if we used exclude.fs instead?  the
manual says that exclude.fs and exclude.dir are dropped outright, but
for
exclude, and etc, it only says the file is not backed up - it does not
specify that the file will be expired.

Thanks for any input you can provide.

P.S.  TSM 5.3.2.3 on AIX 5.2.8 with Sun Solaris client version 5.3.0.

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