Christo,
I'm still on client level 3.1.0.8 and the exclude.fs does not work for me as
well. However, "exclude /db01/.../*" does work.
Regards
Gerrit
Christo Heuër wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm having some doubts as to how Tsm is doing the excludes for AIX.
> Some info on the environment:
> Client - AIX 4.3 running Tsm 3.7.2.0
> Server - OS/390 2.9 running Tsm 3.7.0.0
>
> My include/exclude list ONLY contains stuff to be excluded - so the bottom
> to top procedure with a combination of incl/exclude does not pertain here.
>
> My exclude has the following lines:
> exclude.fs /db01
> exclude.fs /db02
>
> This is for all our db nodes on an S80. The unsupported command in the dsmc
> prompt on this client (show inclexcl), shows the filesystems are excluded.
> The web client shows the files are excluded - BUT - an incremental backup
> will still backup large files in the db01 file system. Seeing that we have
> about 2 terabyte of data under these filesystems - and we do not need to
> back it up - we are having some serious space constraints on the Tsm server.
> We specifically installed the 3.7.2.0 code to address this issue - before we
> were running Adsm 3.1.0.8 with the same result.
>
> Looking forward to replies.
>
> Regards
> Christo Heuer
