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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 8, 2013

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Exclude.vmdisk to exclude on vmdk name basis

Using INCLUDE.VMDISK and EXCLUDE.VMDISK it is today possible to exculde certain vmdks using the disk label of that particular vmdk, eg. "Hard Disk 2". This is good, but it would be even better if we could include/exclude on the basis of the actual vmdk name itself. Let's say you have multiple VMs and all have a separate vmdk for the swapfile. These vmdks are all named swap.vmdk on the datastore, so excluding them would be very easy if "EXCLUDE.VMDISK * swap.vmdk" was a valid option. It is far more tedious to find out the disk label for all the swapfile drives that you want to exclude from backup, because not all VMs have the swapfile on "Hard Disk 2". The information about vmdk name is already available, as can be seen using: backup vm VM1 -preview". If implemented, it would be nice to be able to use wildcards for the vmdk names.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 12, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 10, 2013

    Agree

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