Try this as a simple troubleshooting technique. If they are AIX filesystems add this ONE statement to the opt file: exclude.fs /db1/oracle
If the filesystem is locally mounted and in etc/filesystem should be excluded. "Glass, Peter" wrote: > TSM seems to ignore our exclude statements, no matter which wildcard syntax > we use. For example, we have filesystems called /db1/oracle, /db2/oracle, > etc. through /db30/oracle that we want to exclude. We've tried: > exclude /db[1-30]/oracle/.../* > and > exclude /db*/oracle/.../* > and > exclude /.../oracle/.../* > without success: in each case, the backups still try to backup the files > under these directories. The backups usually fail to pick up the files, > because the files change during the backup, which is why we want to exclude > them. > Are we misunderstanding how wildcards are supposed to work with exclude > statements? Or is this a product bug? > > Peter Glass > Distributed Storage Management (DSM) > Wells Fargo Services Company > > * 612-667-0086 * 866-407-5362 > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >