On Sep 20, 2007, at 7:42 AM, Rick Harderwijk wrote:

Hi,

Our TSM clients on SharePoint servers try to do a backup of these
services:

SYSTEM SERVICES\SPSEARCH VSS WRITER
SYSTEM SERVICES\OSEARCH VSS WRITER

I tried to exclude these items in the dsm.opt file this way:

EXCLUDE.SYSTEMSERVICE "OSEARCH VSS WRITER"
EXCLUDE.SYSTEMSERVICE "PSSEARCH VSS WRITER"


This, however, does not work. Does anyone know how to exclude these
services
from backup?

Rick -

When posting, please include platform info and software levels involved.

Note the client manual advisory on Exclude.Systemservice:
"This option is valid for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista only."
which might be the issue.

Be sure to perform 'dsmc q inclexcl' after changing *clude options,
to assess validity, order, and contributing sources.  Check the
dsmerror.log for any odd findings during backups.

   Richard Sims