Hi,

and the inactive ones will be handeled by the verexists, verdeleted,
retextra and retonly parameters, correct?

regards 
michael



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Von: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Gesendet am: Dienstag, 17. Oktober 2000 15:56
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Betreff: Re: exclude.dir question

> I'm resending this in the hopes someone has a quick answer....
>
> If I backup all the files on a client, and then later decide to implement
> an exclude.dir, what happens to the files that were previously backed up?
> Do they get purged or do they stay forever pinned in ADSM?

Bob - Doing an EXCLUDE or EXCLUDE.FILE or EXCLUDE.DIR has the same effect as
      having deleted the specified objects from the client: they will be
expired the next time a backup is performed using those specifications.
As documented in the B/A client manual (Unix), Exclude option note:

  1. If you change your include-exclude list so that a previously included
file
     is now excluded, any pre-existing backup versions of that file become
     inactive the next time an incremental backup is run.

One might extrapolate and think that EXCLUDE.FS would cause the whole
filespace to expire; but in fact it merely causes bakup of the file system
to
be skipped, as though it were not specified on the command line or the
Domain
spec.

The B/A manual could be more clear as to the effects.  I'll contact the
documentation people about this.

     Richard Sims, BU

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