On Feb 11, 2005, at 7:27 AM, Paul Fielding wrote:
...My belief has always been that exclude would exclude both backups and archives, which would negate the need to exclude the same filespec with both exclude.backup and exclude.archive. ...
While an unqualified Exclude should intuitively exclude a file system object from all TSM operations, the product unfortunately departs from obviousness here, requiring the .archive qualifier to exclude from archiving as well, as has been consistently explained in the client manuals. Products sometimes have warts like this due to the way they evolve from initial design objectives, as in Backup being the initial role of the primordial product.
Richard Sims
