Well, it would help to see the Q INCLEXCL output, to confirm findings.
Does the scheduler by any chance use a different options file that might
have different include/exclude statements? What does "dsmcutil query
/name:servicename" show? ("servicename" is the name of the scheduler
service)
Best regards,
Andy
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IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development
Level 3 Team Lead
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 01/06/2009
12:01:58 PM:
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> Windows temp directory inadvertently excluded..sort of
>
> Shawn Drew
>
> to:
>
> ADSM-L
>
> 01/06/2009 12:03 PM
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> Sent by:
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> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU>
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> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
>
> I'm trying to track down exactly why the c:\temp directory wasn't backed
> up on 2 Windows servers, and only these 2 Windows servers
>
> OS: Win2003
> TSM: 5.3.4
>
> - When trying to restore some data in the C:\Temp directory (On both
> servers), we found that the directory structures were all backed up, but
> none of the files were.
> - The logs show the directories being updated/backed up, but no files
> - The q inclexcl doesn't show anything to indicate why these files might
> be excluded
> - The GUI backup doesn't have any "X's" or that
> "circle-with-line-through-it" symbol which typically denotes exclusions
> - running "dsmc i c:\temp" DOES back up the files, but then get expired
> when the scheduled nightly backup runs.
> - The only thing I noticed that makes this different from the other
hosts.
> In the dsm.opt there are 2 options:
> include.fs c: FILELEVEL=dynamic
> include.fs d: FILELEVEL=dynamic
>
> I think these are remnants from trying to troubleshoot snapshot issues.
I
> can't imagine why this would exclude the temp directory. I'm removing
> these lines tonight to see what happens.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Shawn
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