This is even better George... We recommend that you have the following minimum include-exclude list in your client options file:
exclude "*:\microsoft uam volume\*" exclude "*:\microsoft uam volume\...\*" exclude "*:\...\ea data. sf" exclude "*:\...\pagefile.sys" exclude "*:\...\ibmbio.com" exclude "*:\ibmdos.com" exclude "*:\msdos.sys" exclude "*:io.sys" exclude.dir *:\recycled exclude.dir *:\recycler exclude.dir *:\...\system32\wins exclude.dir *:\...\system32\LServer exclude.dir *:\...\system32\dhcp exclude.dir *:\...\system32\config exclude.dir "*:\system volume information" exclude *:\...\system32\perflib*.dat exclude.dir "*:\...\temporary internet files" exclude "*:\documents and settings\...\ntuser.dat.LOG" exclude "*:\documents and settings\...\ntuser.dat" exclude "*:\documents and settings\...\usrclass.dat.LOG" exclude "*:\documents and settings\...\usrclass.dat" -----Original Message----- From: George Lesho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 10:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: inclexcl help for windoze box Since I am not able to master the inclexcl stuff in my AIX environment, I guess I am foolish to believe I can figure it out in my newly inherited Win2K client environment but here goes... Just started and have not yet put together a cloptset for these boxes but I have put some includes/excludes in the ba client's dsm.opt file: exclude "f:\tsmdata\...\*" exclude "f:\pagefile.sys" exclude "e:\tsmdata\...\*" exclude "e:\pagefile.sys" exclude "c:\WINNT\system32\Perflib_Perfdata_358.dat" exclude "c:\Documents and Settings\*" exclude "c:\pagefile.sys" exclude "c:\documents and settings\administrator.atl-corp-pdc\ntuser.dat" exclude "c:\documents and settings\administrator.atl-corp-pdc\ntuser.dal.log" exclude "c:\documents and settings\administrator.atl-corp-pdc\local settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat.LOG" exclude "c:\winnt\system32\config\*" include "c:\winnt\system32\drivers\*" This is from my error log relative to last night's incremental 01/21/2002 22:30:11 ANS1228E Sending of object '\\atlcorptsm\c$\Documents and Settings\Administrator.ATL-CORP-PDC\ntuser.dat.LOG' failed 01/21/2002 22:30:12 ANS1228E Sending of object '\\atlcorptsm\c$\Documents and Settings\Administrator.ATL-CORP-PDC\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat' failed 01/21/2002 22:30:54 ANS1802E Incremental backup of '\\atlcorptsm\c$\*' finished with 2 failure What am I doing wrong? I would think these registry files would be excluded... TIA! George Lesho Storage/System Admin AFC Enterprises