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Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 26, 2019

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mmbackup does not handle EXCLUDE.DIR rules preferentially over EXCLUDE rules

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The TSM BA client dsmc by default includes everything in the backup domain (defaults to all local filesystems), optionally allowing one to exclude paths and even re-include paths that would by excluded by previous rules. There are two mechanisms for excluding paths within a filesystem:

EXCLUDE
EXCLUDE.DIR

The latter only works with directories, but paths that are excluded with EXCLUDE.DIR can never be re-included, while paths excluded with EXCLUDE can be re-included. For instance, this would support a default-exclude policy for a filesystem, include home directories, and also allow users to create directories called "nobackup" anywhere in the gpfs1 filesystem and have them excluded from backups, even if they're in home directories:

EXCLUDE.DIR nobackup
INCLUDE /gpfs/gpfs1/home/.../*
EXCLUDE /gpfs/gpfs1/.../*

Unfortunately, while this would work with the native TSM BA client, mmbackup treats EXCLUDE.DIR the same as EXCLUDE and will actually include all paths underneath /gpfs/gpfs1/home even if they're called "nobackup".

The RFE would involve updating mmbackup include/exclude rule processing to match the handling with the TSM BA client.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Apr 23, 2021

    Delivered in 5.1.1

  • Guest
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    |     Sep 30, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs
    Component - Product functionality

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs
    Component - Technical Foundation

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