Thanks everyone .. I will go with Andy's suggestion of using a separate schedule to target a specific folder for backup. Although Gary's suggestion would also solve my problem ,it comes with a lot of administrative overheard since i would have to use many exclude.dir options for each specific server and also if an user did add any new folder in future i would end up backing up the folder structure.
Paul, we do a lot of folder specific backups on many of the servers( file,oracle,application,EDMS servers).Many of these servers do have folder/sub folder branches of over 10,000+ .So if i can be very specific in what i backup i can reduce TSM DB growth to a certain extent. Also,we are not particular about backing up the OS,system drive on some servers as these servers have redundant server units and even if we lost a server somewhere , the App services wouldn't be affected and we can rebuild the server from scratch .Its been over 5 yrs and we have never faced the situation of a server rebuild due to OS file corruption or user accidentally deleting the file.Hence we stick with the plan of skipping OS backup for certain non critical servers . +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by gibi...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------
