Absolutely, we are using DFS replication, so our intent is not to backup each of the DFS links. What is the best way to have TSM do that? After talking with technical support, it seems as though you need to use a modified DOMAIN statement and an EXCLUDE.DIR in tandem in order to avoid having a DFS backed up. Is there a way to use one or the other to accomplish the same thing? The subdirectories under the DFS root (E:\DFS\ENTDFS01) point to shares on the same system; specifically the MSI directory under the DFS root uses a share that resolves to E:\DSF\MSI. Currently the DOMAIN statement has "C: D: E:" and the EXCLUDE.DIR has E:\DFS. One of the things I noticed is that the DOMAIN statement now excludes the system state and system services, which are typically covered with the ALL-LOCAL value. Should I be able to use the default ALL-LOCAL for the DOMAIN and the EXCLUDE.DIR to accomplish this? Thanks for your help.
Through TSM support, we also noted that DOMAIN statements are cumulative. So, a DOMAIN statement in the client options set and one in the dsm.opt work in tandem. We're wondering if that is causing some conflict here as well. Thanks for the note about backing up the DFS root. I'll work on that shortly after this issue is resolved. ___________________________ With regards, - Jon -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TSM_User Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 3:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM, Windows and DFS You say you are trying to exclude the DFS shares for obviouse reasons. There isn't any obviouse reasons to me. It is real user data that should be backed up. Now if you are using DFS replication and what you mean is you don't want to back data in a DFS link that is a replica of data somewhere else then send us the path name for the folder that is shared. Then send us your exclude that you think doesn't work. I have set up multiple large Server based and active directory based DFS roots. I have done this with both Windows 2000 and Windows 2003. In all cases we were using TSM to backup the data. In many cases the DFS Root was on one of the file servers. The data itself was on multiple file servers as you would expect with DFS. Each server had a TSM client and each client was expected to backup all of the data on the server it was running on. We only excluded shares that were linked to through DFS when they were a replica of data that was somewhere else. For those we did have excludes on the file servers were the replica's were so that we did not back up that data twice. On a side note one extra thing we did was use the DFSCMD to backup the DFS root and links as documented by MS. Here is a sample of what we did. DFSCMD /VIEW \\ad.corp1.com\Root1 /BATCH >> "C:\DFSBackup\DFSRestore.bat" Jon Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This would be the DFS shares on the target clients. ___________________________ With regards, - Jon -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TSM_User Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 6:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM, Windows and DFS Are you talking about the server with the DFS Root and the DFS links? Or do you mean the server that the shares are on? If the shares are being backed up via another system then it might be that someone manaully backed it up while the links were mapped. More clarification please? Jon Adams wrote: Anyone have anything on TSM and Windows DFS? We're trying to exclude the DFS shares (for obvious reason) and not having any luck. Interestingly enough, we get this when querying includes/excludes, but can find no documentation that states how you would provide a DFS include/exclude: Excl All *\Pagefile.sys Operating System Excl All *\hiberfil.sys Operating System Excl All *\...\*.crmlog Operating System No DFS include/exclude statements defined. With regards, _______________________________________________ Jon R. Adams Systems Engineer II Infrastructure Technical Support, OSS Premera Blue Cross Work: 425-918-5770 / mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are only 10 kinds of people in this world - those that know binary and those that do not." -author unknown --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!
