Keith, What a good idea! We do the same.
David Ehresman University of Louisville -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arbogast, Warren K Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 7:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] including/excluding vms from backups administration usability Markus, We add '-NB' to the label in vSphere of the VMs we do not wish to back up. Then, we specify '-VM=*-NB' in the schedule options. QED Keith Arbogast Indiana University > On May 19, 2015, at 6:49 AM, Markus Engelhard > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > we are currently struggling a bit with TSM4VE config and making it more > manageable regarding including and excluding vms from backup. > For disks, we can exclude individual disks by just adding a line to the > optfile looking like > > exclude.vmdisk "vm1" "Hard Disk 2" > exclude.vmdisk "vm2" "Hard Disk 2" > > works fine, one disk per line and readable. > > If i want to exclude vms, I have to put them all in one line looking like > > DOMAIN.VMFULL > "vmhost=host1;-VM=vm7*,vm1,vm2,vm6,vm101,vm30,vm29,vm465,vm9,vm879,vm102,vm101;VM=7;VM=vm7657" > > which is not easily readable and hard to maintain as it grows and changes. > I know about the GUI, but then you always have to logon to the system for > each change, plus the exclude for disks is not avaliable. > The client will not accept more than one domain.vmfull statement or a cr, > all has to be in one line. > The options also don´t seem to be available in the client option set as > options, which would also be a neat solution. > Has anyone made a more readable syntax work, or would this be a case for a > RFE? > > > Kind regards, > > Markus
