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Pre- and post-processing *EXITs

within the control groups

  
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If the first entry in a control group is an *EXIT, it is processed before any subsystem or job queue processing is done during STRBKUBRM pre-processing.

If the last entry in a control group is an *EXIT, it is processed after any subsystem or job queue processing is done during STRBKUBRM post-processing.

Because of these two facts, the control groups supplied by BRMS with a SAVDOMBRM *EXIT contain empty pre and post *EXITs. These *EXITs are required for online Lotus Server backups to occur correctly. However, you can choose to change the pre and post data so that a pre and post exit does the processing that you require around the SAVDOMBRM command processing.

Example of entries in the QLTSSVR control group:

10 *EXIT

20 *EXIT SAVDOMBRM SERVER(DOM1) CTLGRP(QLTSSVR)

30 *EXIT SAVDOMBRM SERVER(LQP2) CTLGRP(QLTSSVR)

40 *EXIT

You can specify files and directories to be omitted from the save on the SAVDOMBRM command. The rules for specifying the objects to omit are:

  • The object name is relative to the server's data directory,
  • The name specified on the OMIT parameter is case sensitive,
  • A maximum of 300 objects can be specified on the OMIT parameter,
  • A pattern can be specified for the object name.

Here are some examples:

  • If the server path is '/domserv01/notes/data ' (as seen on the WRKDOMSVR, F11 screen) and you want to omit all files in the Mail directory that resides under the data directory, you would enter the following OMIT parameter on the SAVDOMBRM command: OMIT(('Mail/*'))
  • If you had specified OMIT(('mail/*')) in the above example, and the actual directory name is Mail, the command would not have omitted any files from the Mail subdirectory because the case of the name didn't match ('Mail' vs. 'mail'). To determine what case you should specify for a name, do a WRKDOMSVR, then option 12 against the server in question (this option will display a Work with Object Links screen). The list of files and directories are displayed with the case sensitivity that would be used if specifying them on the OMIT parameter of the SAVDOMBRM command.
  • If you wanted to omit all the files under the Mail directory that started with 'aB', you would specify the following on the OMIT parameter of SAVDOMBRM: OMIT(('Mail/aB*'))