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excludes system files, a list of supported wildcard characters, and examples of howyou might use wildcard characters with include and exclude patterns.Excluding file spaces and directoriesUse exclude.dir statements to exclude all files and sub-directories in the specifieddirectory from processing. Tivoli Storage Manager evaluates all exclude.dirstatements first (regardless of their position within the include-exclude list), andremoves the excluded directories and files from the list of objects available forprocessing. The exclude.dir statements override all include statements that matchthe pattern.Table 19. Options for excluding file spaces and directoriesOptionDescriptionexclude.fs“Exclude options”on page 312exclude.dir“Exclude options”on page 312Excludes file spaces matching the pattern. The client does not considerthe specified file space for processing and the usual deleted-fileexpiration process cannot occur. If you exclude a file space that waspreviously included, existing backup versions remain on the serversubject to retention rules specified in the associated management classdefinition.Excludes a directory, its files, and all its subdirectories and their filesfrom backup processing. For example, the statement exclude.dir/test/dan/data1 excludes the /test/dan/data1 directory, its files, andall its subdirectories and their files. Using the exclude.dir option ispreferable over the standard exclude option to exclude large directoriescontaining many files that you do not want to back up. You cannot useinclude options to override an exclude.dir statement. Only useexclude.dir when excluding an entire directory branch.Note:1. Use the following statements to exclude volumes /Volumes/disk2altogether from backup processing. Note that the volume(/Volumes/disk2) will still be backed up, but all other directories on/Volumes/disk2 will be excluded.exclude /Volumes/disk2/*exclude.dir /Volumes/disk2/*2. An alternative method for excluding an entire volume from domainincremental backup is to use a domain statement to exclude thevolume. For example:domain "-/Volumes/disk2"This alternative still permits selective backup processing of files on/Volumes/disk2.Excluding files and directories from journal-based backupThere are two methods of excluding files and directories from a journal-basedbackup. One method is to add exclude statements to the client options file toprevent the files or directories from being backed up during backup processing.The other method is to add exclude statements to the journal configuration filetsmjbbd.ini, to prevent journal entries from being added for the files ordirectories, which prevents them from being processed during a journal-basedbackup.Journal-based backup is only supported on AIX.Note: There is no correlation between the two exclude statements. It is preferableto place exclude statements in tsmjbbd.ini to prevent them from entering thejournal database and being processed during a journal-based backup.82 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for UNIX and Linux Backup-Archive Clients Version 6.1: Installation and User’s Guide