Does "All Local Drives" Back Up System State

The domain option specifies the drives that you want to include for incremental backup in your client domain.

Use the domain option in your client options file (dsm.opt) to define your default client domain. Tivoli Storage Manager uses your default client domain in the following situations to determine which local drives to process during an incremental backup:

• When you run an incremental backup using the incremental command and you do not specify which local drives to process.
• When your administrator defines a schedule to run an incremental backup for you, but does not specify which local drives to process.
• When you select the Backup Domain action from the Tivoli Storage Manager native GUI or Web GUI .

If you do not use the domain option to specify local drives in your client options file, Tivoli Storage Manager uses the all-local parameter as the default.

When you use the domain option with the incremental command, Tivoli Storage Manager adds local drives that you specify to the local drives defined in your client options file. For example, if you enter the following in your client options file:

          domain c: d: e:

and the following on the command line:

          dsmc incremental -domain="g: h:"        

Tivoli Storage Manager performs an incremental backup for your c: d: e: g: and h: local drives.

If you use both a file specification and the domain option with the incremental command, Tivoli Storage Manager ignores the domain option and processes only those drives that you specify in the file specification. For example, if you enter:

          dsmc incremental e: f: -domain="g: h:"

Tivoli Storage Manager performs an incremental backup for the e: and f: drives only.

You can also exclude drives, the systemobject domain, the system state (Windows Server 2003) domain, and the system services (Windows Server 2003) domain. by specifying the dash (-) operator before the drive or the systemobject domain. For example, in the following options Tivoli Storage Manager will process all local drives except for the c: drive and systemobject, systemstate, and systemservices domain:

          domain ALL-LOCAL -c: -systemobject    domain ALL-LOCAL -c: -systemstate    domain ALL-LOCAL -c: -systemservices

Note: You cannot use the (-) operator in front of a domain keyword such as ALL-LOCAL.

This option is valid for all Windows clients. The server can also define this option. The Tivoli Storage Manager client API does not support this option.

Place this option in the client options file (dsm.opt). You can set this option on the Backup tab, Domain for Backup section of the Preferences editor.

                                                    .- ------------------.            V .-all-local------. | >>-DOMain----+----------------+-+------------------------------><              +-domain---------+              +- -domain-------+              +-systemobject---+              +-systemservices-+              '-systemstate----'        

all-local

Backs up all local hard drives, the systemobject domain (Windows 2000, XP), the systemstate domain (Windows Server 2003), and the systemservices domain (Windows Server 2003) . This is the default.

domain

Defines the drives to include in your default client domain.

When you use domain with the incremental command, it processes these drives in addition to those you specify in your default client domain.

-domain

Defines the drives, the systemobject domain (Windows 2000, XP), the systemstate domain (Windows Server 2003), or the systemservices domain (Windows Server 2003) to exclude in your default client domain.

systemobject

Backs up all relevant system objects. Systemobject is included if all-local is specified. This is valid for Windows 2000, and XP only.

systemservices

Backs up Windows Server 2003 system services. Systemservices is included if all-local is specified. This is valid for Windows Server 2003 only.

systemstate

Backs up Windows Server 2003 system state. Systemstate is included if all-local is specified. This is valid for Windows Server 2003 only.

Options file:

domain c: d: e: domain c: systemobject domain ALL-LOCAL -systemobject domain ALL-LOCAL -c: domain ALL-LOCAL -\\florence\e$            

Command line:

-domain="c: d:"              -domain="ALL-LOCAL -c: -systemobject"

Does "All Local Drives" Back Up System State

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