Look into include/exclude lists.  I'm not very well versed on TSM yet, but I know you can put directories like that into the exclude list and avoid backing up un-needed data.

Paul M. Miller
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-----Original Message-----
From: rajeshoak@lycos.com [mailto:rajeshoak@lycos.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 10:57 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Problem with Scheduled Backup.

Everyone,

I have TSM 4.1.0 on Windows 2000 Server. The clients are TSM 4.1.2 clients on Windows 2000 professional. The problem with my backups is:
When I do manual backup using the GUI the amount of data backed up incrementally is about 9 Megs. When I run a schedule to back it up it backs up about 230 M of data. What I found out was that it backs up many folders like c:\Winnt\system32 folder everytime I run a schedule even though nothing changes on these folders or files. I will eventually have more than a 1000 clients which will create a network bottleneck with the amount of data that would be sent over the network.
If anyone has a solution for this problem please send me a mail.

Regards,

Rajesh Oak

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