System files to exclude

There are some system files that should be placed in the client options file so that they are excluded.

Attention: These system files are either locked by the operating system or they can cause problems during restore. These are system files that cannot be recovered without the possibility of corrupting the operating system, or temporary files with data that you can easily recreate.

The implicitly generated statements can be seen in the lines of output of the query inclexcl command with the source "operating system".

Windows operating systems Use the sample include-exclude list in the dsm.smp file as a starting point for your include-exclude list. This is the minimum include-exclude list that you should have. The dsm.smp file is located in the config folder in the installation directory. If you accepted the defaults, the path to this file is C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\config\dsm.smp

Windows operating systems There are exclude statements generated from a list defined by the Windows operating system in the Windows Registry. Those implicitly generated statements can be seen in the lines of output of the query inclexcl command with the source "operating system".

The backup-archive client adds the following exclude statements to the include-exclude list from your dsm.sys file. Do not include any of these statements in the dsm.sys file, or duplicate entries occurs.

EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE "/.../Desktop DB"
EXCLUDE.BACKUP "/.../Desktop DB"
EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE "/.../Desktop DF"
EXCLUDE.BACKUP "/.../Desktop DF"
EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE /.vol
EXCLUDE.BACKUP /.vol
EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE /automount
EXCLUDE.BACKUP /automount
EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE /Network
EXCLUDE.BACKUP /Network
EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE /dev
EXCLUDE.BACKUP /dev
EXCLUDE.BACKUP /.vol/.../*
EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE /.vol/.../*
EXCLUDE.BACKUP /automount/.../*
EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE /automount/.../*
EXCLUDE.BACKUP /Network/.../*
EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE /Network/.../*
EXCLUDE.BACKUP /dev/.../*
EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE /dev/.../*
EXCLUDE.DIR /.vol
EXCLUDE.DIR /automount
EXCLUDE.DIR /Network
EXCLUDE.DIR /dev

Note:

Do not specify volumes with periods in the name (...). The backup-archive client uses the sequence of periods as part of include-exclude processing. The client reports an invalid include-exclude statement if a volume has a sequence of periods in the name. The volume must be renamed.
Objects that have a type of rhap and a creator of lcmt are excluded from processing. Generally, these are special file-system objects that can also be created with the mknod command or are UNIX mount points. The objects or mount points must be manually recreated as part of a full system restore.

You should have the following minimum include-exclude list in your include-exclude options file:

EXCLUDE   /.../dsmsched.log
EXCLUDE   /.../dsmprune.log
EXCLUDE   /.../dsmj.log
EXCLUDE   /.../dsmerror.log
EXCLUDE   /.../.hotfiles.bTree

EXCLUDE.DIR  /private/tmp
EXCLUDE.DIR  /private/var/vm
EXCLUDE.DIR  /private/var/tmp
EXCLUDE.DIR  /private/var/db/netinfo/local.nidb 

EXCLUDE.DIR  /.../.Trashes
EXCLUDE.DIR  /.../.Spotlight-*
EXCLUDE.DIR  /.../Library/Caches
EXCLUDE.DIR  /.../.fseventsd