Hi Richard, If these files change so frequently, they will be backed up every day. Thus the archive and backup cases converge to an expiry after a given number of days.
I'd suggest that you leave your directory excluded from backup, set up an appropriate management class for archive as necessary, and run an archive each day. See also my post of yesterday about snapshots. An AIX filesystem snapshot may be useful here. HTH Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20/08/2003 8:48:38 >>> I am using TSM Client Version 4, Release 2, Level 1.0 on an AIX system. I have a directory (/s/sirsi/Unicorn) that contains 60 GB of data files, the largest of which are frequently updated. The application that updates these files must be kept running with very little down time. We have nightly incremental backups running via the scheduler. They usually start at about 22:00, but the actual start time varies, depending on what other backups the server is performing. In order to prevent /s/sirsi/Unicorn from being backed up while the application is live, we exclude the directory and its children in the inclexcl file. I would like to write a script to be run from crontab that shuts down the application, does an incremental backup, and then restarts the application. However, I find that because the directory is excluded in the inclexcl file, the incremental job of course fails to backup anything. So... Is there any way to override the inclexcl file temporarily while manually doing an incremental command? I can find no command line option that would help. And my attempts to create a custom user dsm.opt file pointing to a different inclexcl file only resulted in an error: ANS1036S Invalid option 'INCLEXCL' found in options file '/s/sirsi/dsm.opt' Any suggestions would be welcome. Thank you. Richard Anderson Stanford University Libraries *********************************************************************************** This email, including any attachments sent with it, is confidential and for the sole use of the intended recipients(s). This confidentiality is not waived or lost, if you receive it and you are not the intended recipient(s), or if it is transmitted/received in error. Any unauthorised use, alteration, disclosure, distribution or review of this email is prohibited. It may be subject to a statutory duty of confidentiality if it relates to health service matters. If you are not the intended recipients(s), or if you have received this e-mail in error, you are asked to immediately notify the sender by telephone or by return e-mail. You should also delete this e-mail message and destroy any hard copies produced. ***********************************************************************************
