I started with excludes from the beginning.
If I got "yellow men" return 1's I would look at why.
I now have a standard exclude for all aix severs.
You can apply that to more then one server at a time in the gui or use a
script.
If I still got return 1's I would look into those, and add the extra
excludes like live database dirs.

This is so much safer for your backups.

I do the same thing for my windows servers.

So now when I add a new server I apply the "standard" exclude via the
gui, and work on any others that might need to be excluded.

Usually after two days the server is all set and I don't have to worry
about it until I add the next server.

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] What are your thoughts on filesystem monitoring?


In our organization we have a hole in the process between our unix and
backup teams.  

We use includes vs. excludes for our misc. filesystem type backups.  

The Unix team rarely tells us when they add a new filesystem on a
server.  At current we have left it at a "If you don't tell us we don't
know about it" but that is neither proactive nor productive.  

One of the members of our backup team that was formerly a member of the
storage team has a script in place that sends him an email whenever a
filesystem is added to a Unix server.  His suggestion is that we take
the initiative and add these filesystems to the backups whenever a new
one comes in.  

My thought is while that is great perhaps its time to move to an
"excludes" type of system, granted its a manual effort across hundreds
of Unix servers and we will probably have to manage the excludes in many
the same ways...  

Thoughts?  Am I making sense?

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