I would suggest back it all up.  Our goal is to return the server to "as it 
was".  Others can successfully argue that it is not needed and is wasting 
space.  We do exclude the various temps and other things that are backed up 
through other means, such as DB files.
If I were to exclude such things, I would target user profiles, not service 
profiles, virus definitions, temp, Server Tools directories and i386 (if your 
admins still do that).  I am sure there are others.
I am not sure how much of that is grabbed by the system backups.
Hopefully that helps some.

Andy Huebner

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Tim Brown
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 9:07 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] server excludes

Does anyone exclude the windows temp folder and temp folder in c:\documents and 
settings (2003)

or c:\users (2008)



Also McAfee backups a lot with all the dat files. If we had to rebuild the OS 
we can just reupdate the defs.



It just appears that there a lot of files and folders which are not excluded by 
default, and are not necessarily required to be backed up.



We are configuring a fresh TSM environment and the opportunity to add more 
excludes is available.



Or is this more of a mute point if full system snapashots are taken periodically



Open for ideas !





Thanks,



Tim Brown
Systems Specialist - Project Leader
Central Hudson Gas & Electric
284 South Ave
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Email: tbrown AT cenhud DOT com <<mailto:tbrown AT cenhud DOT com>>
Phone: 845-486-5643
Fax: 845-486-5921
Cell: 845-235-4255




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