Hi Hans Chr.

Have you looked at the tagging support?

        
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSERB6_8.1.0/ve.user/t_ve_dpext_cfg_bup_policy.html
 
It was specifically added to enable you to avoid these types of issues.


Del

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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 02/21/2017 
03:57:02 AM:

> From: Hans Christian Riksheim <bullhcr AT GMAIL DOT COM>
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Date: 02/21/2017 03:57 AM
> Subject: DOMAIN.vmfull on multiple lines in dsm.opt
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> 
> Really two questions.
> 
> We have a lot of exceptions where VMs are not to be backed up and the
> DOMAIN.vmfull statement is becoming unpractically long:
> 
> domain.vmfull vmhostcluster=X,Y;-vm=abc*,*def,ghi* (times 100)
> 
> Any possibility to have that statement span separate lines or some other
> measure to increase readability?
> 
> Second question is about case sensitivity. In previous versions
> DOMAIN.VMFULL was not case sensitive but now it is. Unfortunately we 
have
> no control of how the VMware guys name their vms so how do we exclude a 
vm
> like
> 
> VMNAME
> 
> and cover all variations Vmname, vmNAME and so on?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans Chr.
>