Hi Arnaud Are there any files in the filespace when it reappers, or just directories. As far as I know, the exclude command just excludes files. The exclude.dir command might be what you need. See below.
>From the TSM guide. exclude.dir Locates matching directory names. If a matching directory is found, that directory, its files, and all its subdirectories and their files are excluded from backup services. Hope this helps Thanks Farren PAC Brion Arnaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 08/11/2001 09:33:42 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: TSM wizardry ? Hi folks ! Here is a case that seems really strange to me. The picture : we have a node called pacrs170, that hosts a filespace named /fsdbexp. We used to backup this filespace daily, until we found it was useless keeping that data. I then decided do delete this filespace from TSM db, what worked perfectly : no trace from it at all, using show version, q fi, q occ aso ..... The day after, I checked this node again, and found the filespace was back, using q fi ! I am sure the filespace is excluded from my backup : this is an extract of my inclexcl : Exclude /fsdbexp/.../* Exclude /fsdbexp/* and this is an extract of backup log : 11/05/01 21:12:14 Normal File--> 847 /fsAdmin/DBA/TOOLS/SQL/upd_stats_ol2.sql [Sent] 11/05/01 21:12:17 Successful incremental backup of '/fsAdmin' 11/05/01 21:12:17 Successful incremental backup of '/fsdbexp' 11/05/01 21:12:17 Symbolic Link--> 18 /fr170ifxsrv2/chunk/lr170asd5101 [Sent] This node belongs a policy domain who's default management class is called AIX-SYSTEM, but was once backuped using another mgmt class called backup_2_years, whose backup copy group has following caracteristics : Versions Data Exists NOLIMIT Versions Data Deleted NOLIMIT Retain Extra Versions 730 Retain Only Version 730 Copy Mode MODIFIED Copy Serialization SHRDYNAMIC Copy Frequency 0 Copy Destination DISKPOOL_ARCH If I now do a q occ for this node, I don't see nothing concerning this /fsdbexp filespace, but if I do a q fi I obtain : PACRS170 /fsdbexp AIX JFS 65,536.0 85.9 Doing a show version pacrs170 /fsdbexp gives me (snippet of it) : /fsdbexp : / pacpan_save (MC: BACKUP_2_YEARS) Active, Inserted 11/07/01 21:11:54 ObjId: 0.91678174 /fsdbexp : / tivoli (MC: BACKUP_2_YEARS) Active, Inserted 11/07/01 21:11:54 ObjId: 0.91678175 /fsdbexp : /dbexp1/ HPL (MC: BACKUP_2_YEARS) Active, Inserted 11/07/01 21:11:54 ObjId: 0.91678176 /fsdbexp : /dbexp1/HPL/ agent (MC: BACKUP_2_YEARS) Active, Inserted 11/07/01 21:11:54 ObjId: 0.91678177 /fsdbexp : /dbexp1/HPL/ db_admin (MC: BACKUP_2_YEARS) Active, Inserted 11/07/01 21:11:54 ObjId: 0.91678178 Could anybody explain me why this filespace comes back when I delete it, why I can see it using q fi, but not using q occ, and why "show version" shows me those objects with inserted date corresponding (ok few seconds difference) with the date of daily backup for this node, but using a mgmt class not associated with this filespace in my incl-excl list, furthermore this list excludes that filespace !??? Is it linked with the fact I backuped that filespace once using mgmt class "backup_2_years" that has retain only version 730 days ? How could I then definitely erase this data ? I'm very confused, if anybody has a clue ... TIA. Arnaud =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | Arnaud Brion, Panalpina Management Ltd., IT Group | | Viaduktstrasse 42, P.O. Box, 4002 Basel - Switzerland | | Phone: +41 61 226 19 78 / Fax: +41 61 226 17 01 | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
