I would suggest back it all up. Our goal is to return the server to "as it was". Others can successfully argue that it is not needed and is wasting space. We do exclude the various temps and other things that are backed up through other means, such as DB files. If I were to exclude such things, I would target user profiles, not service profiles, virus definitions, temp, Server Tools directories and i386 (if your admins still do that). I am sure there are others. I am not sure how much of that is grabbed by the system backups. Hopefully that helps some.
Andy Huebner -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 9:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] server excludes Does anyone exclude the windows temp folder and temp folder in c:\documents and settings (2003) or c:\users (2008) Also McAfee backups a lot with all the dat files. If we had to rebuild the OS we can just reupdate the defs. It just appears that there a lot of files and folders which are not excluded by default, and are not necessarily required to be backed up. We are configuring a fresh TSM environment and the opportunity to add more excludes is available. Or is this more of a mute point if full system snapashots are taken periodically Open for ideas ! Thanks, Tim Brown Systems Specialist - Project Leader Central Hudson Gas & Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email: [email protected] <<mailto:[email protected]>> Phone: 845-486-5643 Fax: 845-486-5921 Cell: 845-235-4255 This message contains confidential information and is only for the intended recipient. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this note and deleting all copies and attachments. This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.
