Hi Markus,

Check to see if this existing RFE is a match:

        
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=62515

and vote for it if it is.


Del

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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 05/19/2015 
06:49:00 AM:

> From: Markus Engelhard <markus.engelhard AT BUNDESBANK DOT DE>
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Date: 05/19/2015 06:49 AM
> Subject: including/excluding vms from backups administration usability
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> 
> 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