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Tivoli Storage Manager for NetWare Backup-Archive Client Installation and User's Guide

Using Include-Exclude Options

This section provides the following:

Excluding Directories

Use Exclude.dir statements to exclude all files and sub-directories in the specified directory from processing. Tivoli Storage Manager evaluates all Exclude.dir statements first, and removes the excluded directories and files from the list of objects available for processing. The Exclude.dir statements override all include statements that match the pattern.

Table 4. Option for Excluding Directories

Option Description Page
exclude.dir Excludes a directory, its files, and all its subdirectories and their files from backup processing. For example, exclude.dir nw6\sys:test/dan/data1 excludes nw6\sys:test/dan/data1, its files, and all its subdirectories and their files.

However, you can still back up nw6\sys:test/dan/data1, its files, and all its subdirectories and their files using a selective backup, as follows:

  dsmc sel -subdir=yes nw6\sys:test/dan/data1/

However, the next time you perform an incremental backup, these backup versions are expired. If you exclude a directory that was previously included, Tivoli Storage Manager marks existing backup versions of the files and directories beneath it inactive during the next incremental backup. Use this option to exclude a portion of your data in which no underlying files need to be backed up. The Tivoli Storage Manager Client API does not support this option.

Exclude Options

Controlling Backup and Archive Processing

After Tivoli Storage Manager evaluates all exclude.dir statements, the following options are evaluated against the remaining list of objects available for processing.

If you exclude an object that was previously included, Tivoli Storage Manager marks existing backup versions inactive during the next incremental backup.

Table 5. Options for Controlling Backup and Archive Processing

Option Description Page
Backup Processing
exclude
exclude.backup
exclude.file
exclude.file.backup
These options are equivalent. Use these options to exclude a file or group of files from backup services. Exclude Options
include
include.backup
include.file
These options are equivalent. Use these options to include files or assign management classes for backup processing. Include Options
Archive Processing
exclude.archive Excludes a file or group of files from archive services. Exclude Options
include
include.archive
These options are equivalent. Use these options to include files or assign management classes for archive processing. Include Options

Controlling Compression and Encryption Processing

After Tivoli Storage Manager evaluates Exclude.dir and any other include-exclude options controlling backup, archive, image, and system objects, it uses the following options to determine which files undergo compression, encryption, or subfile processing.

Table 6. Options for Controlling Compression and Encryption Processing

Option Description Page
Compression Processing
exclude.compression Excludes files from compression processing if compression=yes is specified. This option applies to backups and archives. Exclude Options
include.compression Includes files for compression processing if compression=yes is specified. This option applies to backups and archives. Include Options
Encryption Processing
exclude.encrypt Excludes files from encryption processing. Exclude Options
include.encrypt Includes files for encryption processing. Include Options

Excluding System Files

We recommend that you have the following minimum include-exclude list in your client options file (dsm.opt):

Log files:

   SYS:VOL$LOG.ERR
   SYS:TTS$LOG.ERR
   SYS:SYSTEM\SYS$LOG.ERR
   SYS:SYSTEM\EVENTS.LOG
   SYS:SYSTEM\SECAUDIT.LOG
   SYS:SYSTEM\SYSTEM.LOG
General files that NetWare programs always accessed and that cannot be opened for reading:
   SYS:SYSTEM\CMASTER.DBA
   SYS:SYSTEM\BTRIEVE.TRN
   SYS:SYSTEM\TSA\TSA$TEMP.*

These are system files that cannot be recovered without possibly corrupting the operating system. See Tivoli Storage Manager NetWare Backup and Recovery Guide to identify other files to exclude.

Including and Excluding Groups of Files

To specify groups of files that you want to include or exclude, use the wildcard characters listed in Table 7. This table applies to include and exclude statements only. For information about using wildcard characters in Tivoli Storage Manager commands, see Using Wildcard Characters.

Table 7. Wildcard and Other Special Characters

Character Function
? The match-one character matches any single character except the directory separator; it does not match the end of the string. For example:
  • The pattern ab?, matches abc, but does not match ab, abab, or abzzz.
  • The pattern ab?rs, matches abfrs, but does not match abrs, or abllrs.
  • The pattern ab?ef?rs, matches abdefjrs, but does not match abefrs, abdefrs, or abefjrs.
  • The pattern ab??rs, matches abcdrs, abzzrs, but does not match abrs, abjrs, or abkkkrs.
* The match-all character. For example:
  • The pattern ab*, matches ab, abb, abxxx, but does not match a, b, aa, bb.
  • The pattern ab*rs, matches abrs, abtrs, abrsrs, but does not match ars, or aabrs, abrss.
  • The pattern ab*ef*rs, matches abefrs, abefghrs, but does not match abefr, abers.
  • The pattern abcd.*, matches abcd.c, abcd.txt, but does not match abcd, abcdc, or abcdtxt.
\... The match-n character matches zero or more directories.
\

The directory separator character limits the scope of the search for the matching n characters and directories. If a pattern does not begin with a directory separator (or one does not follow the drive specification), a match-all directories is appended to the pattern. For example, these patterns are equivalent:

   sys:*
   sys:.../*
Note that both characters (\) and (/) can be used as a directory delimiter.
[ The open character-class character begins the enumeration of a character class. For example:
   xxx[abc] matches xxxa, xxxb, or xxxc.
- The character-class range includes characters from the first character to the last character specified. For example:
   xxx[a-z] matches xxxa, xxxb, xxxc, ... xxxz.
/

The literal escape character. When used within a character class it causes the next character to be treated literally. When used outside a character class, it is used as a directory separator. For example, if you wish to include the ']' in a character class, enter [.../]...]. The escape character removes the usual meaning of ']' as the close character-class character.

This is also a server name delimiter when it is placed before a volume delimiter (:). For example:

servername\volumename:/directoryname/file.name
] The close character-class character ends the enumeration of a character class.
: The volume separator character separates a file specification. The characters before the colon identify a volume name. The characters after the colon identify either a directory name or a file name. For example:
volumename:/directoryname/file.nam

Examples Using Wildcards with Include and Exclude Patterns

Tivoli Storage Manager accepts the exclude.dir option which can be used to exclude directory entries. However, include and exclude.dir cannot be used together. For example, the following statements will not produce the desired results:

exclude.dir nds:.o=adsm
include nds:.o=adsm.ou=tucson.*

You must code the following statements to include only the objects in the .o=adsm.ou=tucson branch of the NDS:

exclude nds:.o=adsm
include nds:.o=adsm.ou=tucson.*

Table 8 contains examples of ways you might use wildcard characters with include and exclude patterns.

Table 8. Using Wildcard Characters with Include and Exclude Patterns

Task Pattern
Exclude all files with an extension of .bak, except those found on servera in the one:/dev directory.
exclude servera\*:.../*.bak
include servera\one:dev/*.bak 
Exclude all files and directories under any tmp directory that might exist on servera, except for the file vol:/tmp/save.fil. Include this file.
exclude servera\*:.../tmp/.../*
include servera\vol:tmp/save.fil
Exclude any .obj file in any directory on volumec, volumee, volumef, and volumeg.
exclude servera\volume[ce-g]:/.../
*.obj
Exclude the .obj files found in the root directory in the volumed drive only.
exclude servera\volumed:*.obj
Exclude any file that resides under the tmp directory found in any file space on any volume.
exclude servera\*:tmp/.../*
Exclude the servera\volumed:mydir/test1 directory and any files and subdirectories under it.
exclude.dir servera\volumed:mydir/
test1
Exclude all directories under the mydir directory with names beginning with test.
exclude.dir servera\volumed:mydir/
test*
Exclude all directories directly under the mydir directory with names beginning with test, on any volume.
exclude.dir servera\*:mydir/test*


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