JournalExcludeList stanza

This list of exclude statements filters changes from being recorded in the journal database. Changes to objects which match statements in this stanza are ignored and are not recorded in the journal database.

Note:

Excluding files from the journal has no bearing on those files being excluded by the backup client, other than preventing the files from being sent to the backup client to be processed during journal-based backup. A file that is not excluded from the journal should still be excluded by the backup-archive client, if there is a matching exclude statement in the client options file.
The journal service only provides a subset of the INCLUDE/EXCLUDE function provided by the backup-archive client. The journal service does not support INCLUDE statements and it does not support the exclude.dir option.

There is no correlation between the journal exclude list and the backup-archive client exclude list.

The following are examples of equivalent journal exclude statements:

dsm.opt: tsmjbbd.ini

EXCLUDE c:\testdir\...\* c:\testdir\*
EXCLUDE.DIR c:\testdir\test* c:\testdir\test*\*

The following pattern matching meta characters are supported:

%: Matches exactly one character.
*: Matches zero or more characters.
%EnvVar%: Expands environment variable.

The following is an exclude statement syntax example:

  [JournalExcludeList]
  %SystemRoot%\System32\Config\*
  C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient\adsm.sys\*
  %TEMP%\*
  %TMP%\*
  c:\excludedir\*
  c:\dir1\excludefile
  *.:\*.tmp

Note: The c:\excludedir\* statement matches the entire tree including subdirectories and files.