Markus,
We add ‘-NB’ to the label in vSphere of the VMs we do not wish to back up. 
Then, we specify ‘-VM=*-NB’ in the schedule options. 

QED

Keith Arbogast
Indiana University

> On May 19, 2015, at 6:49 AM, Markus Engelhard <markus.engelhard AT BUNDESBANK 
> DOT DE> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> we are currently struggling a bit with TSM4VE config and making it more
> manageable regarding including and excluding vms from backup.
> For disks, we can exclude individual disks by just adding a line to the
> optfile looking like
> 
> exclude.vmdisk "vm1" "Hard Disk 2"
> exclude.vmdisk "vm2" "Hard Disk 2"
> 
> works fine, one disk per line and readable.
> 
> If i want to exclude vms, I have to put them all in one line looking like
> 
> DOMAIN.VMFULL
> "vmhost=host1;-VM=vm7*,vm1,vm2,vm6,vm101,vm30,vm29,vm465,vm9,vm879,vm102,vm101;VM=7;VM=vm7657"
> 
> which is not easily readable and hard to maintain as it grows and changes.
> I know about the GUI, but then you always have to logon to the system for
> each change, plus the exclude for disks is not avaliable.
> The client will not accept more than one domain.vmfull statement or a cr,
> all has to be in one line.
> The options also don´t seem to be available in the client option set as
> options, which would also be a neat solution.
> Has anyone made a more readable syntax work, or would this be a case for a
> RFE?
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Markus