You definitely do not want to use different options files with different include/exclude lists. EXCLUDE and EXCLUDE.DIR are not intended to "exclude files sometimes but not always". Rather, they are intended for the case where you do not need backups for the files at all.
One better approach is to bind these files to a management class with a nonzero FREQUENCY value (and probably higher than '1', make it something like '7'), then schedule a separate SELECTIVE backup for the directory in question. This way, if the files are backed up daily by the SELECTIVE, the FREQUENCY setting will prevent them from being backed up during INCREMENTAL processing. Best regards, Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development Level 3 Team Lead Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Hartford/i...@ibmus Internet e-mail: [email protected] IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/Tivoli_Storage_Manager "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> wrote on 2010-11-14 04:25:47: > From: Chris Lenssens <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 2010-11-14 04:26 > Subject: bu single dir > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> > > Hi, > > I'm not the TSM expert so I need some advice: > > The daily schedule at 20:00 backups the 2 partitions of my W2003-server > except - so exlude.dir in dsm.opt - "D:\XYZ"; so far so good. That > single directory "D:\XYZ" (also content and subdirectories) must be > backup at 23:45 (than I can shutdown the database during 20 minutes). I > was thinking about a new schedule with a new opt-file but what should I > specify in that new tsm-file? Any - other - ideas/suggestions? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > Chris
