Hi Robert,
You know that TSM reads the include and exclude from the bottom and up.
Plus that exclude.dir doesn't work in UNIX/Linux. (Don't know if they finally 
have include that to 5.5 client) but you should type like

Exclude /var/tmp/*

To exclude all data in /var/tmp

Hope this helping you.

Best Regards / Med Vänlig Hälsning
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Från: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] För Robert 
Ouzen Ouzen
Skickat: den 16 juli 2008 14:12
Till: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Ämne: Help on exclude files ...Please

Hi to all



Please help me I tried to exclude files or directories on a Linux Client 
version 5.5.03 without any success and it makes me crazy.



I want to backup  "/"  and "/boot"



Under    "/"      I have several directories as "/var/tmp"    or     "/var/log" 
    or      "/tmp"      I don't want to backup



In the dsm.opt I add this line:   domain                ALL-LOCAL



In the dsm.sys I add this line:   inclexcl               
/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/cciprnt.excl



On the file cciprnt.excl  I tried several options as exclude.dir and more ... 
but always I saw the files on "/tmp" or "/var/tmp"



One example of this file:



exclude.dir    "/var/tmp"

exclude.dir    "/var/log"

exclude.dir    "/tmp"

exclude.dir    "/root/Archive"



include        "/.../*"

include        "/boot/.../*"



Regards

Robert Ouzen