Exclude files and directories from a journal-based backup
There are two methods of excluding files and directories from a journal-based backup.
- On AIX® and Linux, one method is to add exclude statements to the client options file to prevent the files or directories from being backed up during backup processing.
- On AIX and Linux the other method is to add exclude statements to the journal configuration file
tsmjbbd.ini
, to prevent journal entries from being added for the files or directories, which prevents them from being processed during a journal-based backup.If you are running AIX Version 6.1 or later, add an
exclude .snapshot
statement to thetsmjbbd.ini
file to prevent JFS2 internal snapshot directories from being monitored by the journal-based backup daemon.
- One method is to add exclude statements to the client options file to prevent the files or directories from being backed up during backup processing.
- The other method is to add exclude statements to the journal configuration
file
tsmjbbd.ini
, to prevent journal entries from being added for the files or directories, which prevents them from being processed during a journal-based backup.
Note: There is no correlation between the two exclude statements.
The preferred place for exclude statements in
tsmjbbd.ini
to
prevent them from entering the journal database and being processed
during a journal-based backup.