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Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide
The Tivoli Storage Manager server can define include-exclude options
using the inclexcl parameter in a client option set. The
include-exclude statements specified by the server are evaluated along with
those in the client options file (dsm.opt). The
server include-exclude statements are always enforced and placed at the bottom
of the include-exclude list and evaluated before the client include-exclude
statements.
If the client options file include-exclude list contains one or more
inclexcl options that specify include-exclude files, the
include-exclude statements in these files are placed in the list position
occupied by the inclexcl option and processed accordingly.
When performing an incremental backup, Tivoli Storage Manager evaluates all
exclude.dir statements first, and removes the
excluded directories and files from the list of objects available for
processing. See Excluding Directories and Exclude Options for more information about the
exclude.dir option.
- Note:
- Because directory branches excluded using the exclude.dir
option do not display in the GUI, setting this option prevents you from
performing either selective or incremental backups of data in the excluded
directories from the GUI. However, you can still perform selective
backups of such data from the command line.
After evaluating all exclude.dir statements, Tivoli
Storage Manager evaluates the include-exclude list from the bottom up and
stops when it finds an include or exclude statement that matches the file it
is processing. The order in which the include and exclude options are
entered therefore affects which files are included and excluded. See Chapter 9, Setting Processing Options for more information about the order in which all options
are processed.
To display a list of all include-exclude statements in effect on your
client workstation in the actual order they are processed, use the query
inclexcl command. See Query Inclexcl for more information.
The client program processes the include and exclude
options as follows:
- Files are checked; directories are only checked if the
exclude.dir option is specified.
- File names are compared to the include-exclude list from the
bottom up. When a match is found, the processing stops and checks
whether the option is include or exclude. If the
option is include, the file is backed up. If the option is
exclude, the file is not backed up.
- If a match is not found, files listed are implicitly included
and backed up.
- If policy administration is in effect, files are backed up according to
the default management class, or the management class you specify on a
matching include option.
The following examples demonstrate bottom up processing.
- Example 1
- Assume that c: is defined as the domain, and you defined
the following statements for the include and exclude
options:
exclude ?:\*.obj
include c:\foo\...\*.obj
exclude c:\foo\junk\*.obj
The file being processed is:
c:\foo\dev\test.obj.
Processing follows these steps:
- Rule 3 (the last include or exclude statement
defined) is checked first because of bottom up processing.
The file c:\foo\junk\*.obj does
not match the file name that is being processed.
- Processing moves to Rule 2 and checks. This time, file
c:\foo\...\*.obj
matches the file name that is being processed. Processing stops, the
option is checked, and it is include.
- File c:\foo\dev\test.obj is
backed up.
- Example 2
- Assume that c: is defined as the domain, and you defined
the following statements for the include and exclude
options:
exclude ?:\*.obj
include c:\foo\...\*.obj
exclude c:\foo\junk\*.obj
The file being processed is:
c:\widg\copyit.bat. Processing follows these
steps:
- Rule 3 is checked and finds no match.
- Rule 2 is checked and finds no match.
- Rule 1 is checked and finds no match.
- Because a match is not found, file
c:\widg\copyit.bat is implicitly included and backed
up.
- Example 3
- Assume that c: is defined as the domain, and that you
defined the following statements for the include and
exclude options:
exclude ?:\...\*.obj
include c:\foo\...\*.obj
exclude c:\foo\junk\*.obj
The current file being processed is:
c:\lib\objs\printf.obj.
Processing follows these steps:
- Rule 3 is checked and finds no match.
- Rule 2 is checked and finds no match.
- Rule 1 is checked and a match is found.
- Processing stops, the option is checked, and it is
exclude.
- File c:\lib\objs\printf.obj
is not backed up.
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