> I'm resending this in the hopes someone has a quick answer....
>
> If I backup all the files on a client, and then later decide to implement
> an exclude.dir, what happens to the files that were previously backed up?
> Do they get purged or do they stay forever pinned in ADSM?
Well, if they are not expired the first backup after adding the
exclude.dir, then they will stay in the DB. A way around this would be to
first exclude them via "exclude /pathto/.../*", and running a backup to
expire the files. Then, convert that to exclude.dir.
The above is the empiracl method. My guess is that they will stay
pinned, as exclude.dir says to not look any further in the tree...
Let us know how it turns out.
Steve Roder, University at Buffalo
VM Systems Programmer
UNIX Systems Administrator (Solaris and AIX)
ADSM Administrator
([EMAIL PROTECTED] | (716)645-3564 | http://ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu/~tkssteve)
