I'm not sure my messages are actually getting through, but I'll try. >From what I understand about CLOPSETs the clients should re-read it each time they start a backup, so you should not have to restart the scheduler for them to pickup changes. I never have anyway.
See Ya' Howard > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 9:36 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ADSM-L] Forcing excludes > > Doing some reviews of volume contents, we see lots of folks putting > their > MP3 rips on volumes that are being backed-up (after all....we are a > university). Besides the legal implications, the amount of storage > occupied by these files is probably sizable, considering we have over > 500TB of backups in 4-TSM servers. > > So, we are looking into the prospect of excluding MP3's, en-mass. > > I realize I can create a CLOPSET statement to EXCLUDE "*:\...\*MP3" > > Is there any way to force CLOPSET changes without having to have every > node restart their scheduler service to pickup these changes?
