Modify SAM automated backup

[Bruce Ordway]

Hi,
I recently found that my automated tape backup didn't include some files that I may need to restore. So I went into SAM thinking I could just modify the existing job. I couldn't find any way to add/delete files to/from the list for my automated backup. Anybody know how I would do this?

Thanks,
Bruce Ordway

[S.K. Chan]

It looks like you have chosen your backup scope as "Local Filesystem Only". If you do this you would not be able to change the include/exclude list in SAM.
Hence the work around is to use "Specified Files" as the backup method instead. This will enable you to modify the include/exclude files list in SAM.

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi Bruce

If you look at your sambackup entry in crontab it will be something like this:-

30 3 * * * /usr/sam/lbin/br_backup DAT FULL Y /dev/rmt/c5t3d0BEST /etc/sam/br/graphZCAa25647 root Y 1 N > /var/sam/SAM_br_msgs 2>&1 #sambackup

The graph file graphZCAa25647 in /etc/sam/br contains your backup scope, so :-

i /var
i /maindata
e /tmp
e /var/tmp


the ???i??? = include and ???e??? = exclude.

See man fbackup for details.

HTH
Paula

[Kenny Chau]

Hi Bruce,

You can modify your graph file to include or exclude the directries you want.

eg.

i /mnt20
e /mnt19

Hope this helps.
Kenny.