Getting it to not even look at the rest of the F drive probably isn't going to happen... And I'm old and more command line oriented but here it goes...
Depending on how many other directories there are at the root level of F you could have in your dsm.opt file: SUBDIR YES DOMAIN F: exclude.dir F:\oneyoudontwanttobackup\ exclude.dir F:\anotheroneyoudontwanttobackup\ etc... include F:\foldertobackup\...\* and that would cause them to be skipped with one comparison at the top directory level. If you do a SUBDIR YES DOMAIN F: Exclude F:\...\* Include F:\foldertobackup\...\* That would get you where you want to be but if there are 2 million objects in other directories, then each backup will do the 2M+ comparisons excluding anything not in your included folder... The above would all be to set you up to do a command line: dsmc incr hope this helps a little... and sorry for not much from a GUI point of view, just haven't found much use for it over the past 18 years -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Taylor Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 1:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] Include/exclude confusion Hello, I want to understand something and what I read online is confusing. On a specific machine I want to back up a folder on "F:" but nothing else currently under the backup tab of the GUI i do NOT have "F:" selected, then under include/exclude I have "INCLUDE "F:\foldername" STANDARD" Will this configuration skip all of "F:" except for the foldername I have specified in the include? Some things I have read show that "F:" will be completely ignored even with my include because I do not have it checked under backup. I only want to backup "F:\foldername" on F: and I do not even want the client to look at the rest of "F:" Thomas Taylor System Administrator Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Cell (443)-974-5768
