Think you need a statement like the following. Exclude "*:\...\*.mdf"
That will exclude all .mdf on any drive iin any directory including the root. Gary Lee Senior System Programmer Ball State University phone: 765-285-1310 -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Denier Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 3:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] Excludes without drive letters We just ran an initial backup of a Windows 2003 MS SQL server with TSM 6.2.2.0 client code. We got the following errors: ANE4987E (Session: 172392, Node: MHDHSMSQL) Error processing '\\mhdhsmsql\c$\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data\tempdb.mdf': the object is in use by another process (SESSION: 172392) ANE4987E (Session: 172392, Node: MHDHSMSQL) Error processing '\\mhdhsmsql\c$\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data\templog.ldf': the object is in use by another process (SESSION: 172392) The last two exclude statements in dsm.opt are as follows: Exclude "*.mdf" Exclude "*.ldf" I had the system administrator send me the output from 'query inclexcl'. The last six lines are as follows: Exclude All *\...\*.ldf dsm.opt Exclude All *\...\*.mdf dsm.opt Exclude All C:\Program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmsched.log dsm.opt Exclude All *\...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\...\* dsm.opt Exclude All *\...\pagefile.sys dsm.opt No DFS include/exclude statements defined. I would have thought the *.mdf and *.ldf excludes would have covered the files named in the ANE4987E messages. However, I am wondering about the lack of drive letters in these excludes. All of the sample exclude statements in the Windows client manual include drive letter specifications (sometimes involving wildcard characters) and colons. This being TSM documentation, there is neither an explicit statement that drive letter specifications are mandatory nor an explanation of the rules governing excludes without drive letters. Should the exclude statements above work as I would expect, excluding files with ldf and mdf extensions regardless of which drive the files are on and regardless of what folder the files are in?
