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Tivoli Storage Manager for UNIX 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 user 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 system options file (dsm.sys)
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.fs and exclude.dir statements
first, and removes the excluded file spaces, directories, and files
from the list of objects available for processing. See Excluding File Spaces and Directories and Exclude Options for more information about the
exclude.fs and exclude.dir options.
- 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.fs and
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 /home is defined as the domain, and you defined the
following statements for the include and exclude
options:
exclude *.o
include /home/foo/.../*.o
exclude /home/foo/junk/*.o
The file being processed is:
/home/foo/dev/test.o. Processing follows these
steps:
- Rule 3 (the last include or exclude statement
defined) is checked first because of bottom up processing.
The file /home/foo/junk/*.o does not match the file name
that is being processed.
- Processing moves to Rule 2 and checks. This time, file
/home/foo/.../*.o matches the file name
that is being processed. Processing stops, the option is checked, and
it is include.
- File /home/foo/dev/test.o is backed up.
- Example 2
- Assume that /home is defined as the domain, and you defined the
following statements for the include and exclude
options:
exclude *.obj
include /home/foo/.../*.o
exclude /home/foo/junk/*.o
The file being processed is: /home/widg/copyit.
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 /home/widg/copyit.bat
is implicitly included and backed up.
- Example 3
- Assume that /home is defined as the domain, and that you
defined the following statements for the include and
exclude options:
exclude /.../*.o
include /home/foo/.../*.o
exclude /home/foo/junk/*.o
The current file being processed is:
/home/lib/objs/printf.o. 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 /home/lib/objs/printf.o is not backed up.
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