We had similar excludes and had problems. Noted that all files without
extensions were excluded, and those with were not. Turns out the solution
is to use *.*, not just * - e.g. exclude sys:/system/0E000008.QDR/*.*

At  2:46 PM 5/15/95 -0600, Andy Carlson wrote:
>I have a user that is backing up a Netware file server.  He has excludes
>of the following form:
>
>exclude sys:/system/0E000008.QDR/*
>exclude sys:/system/0E020005.QDR/*
>exclude sys:/system/160000A5.QDR/*
>exclude sys:/system/17000005.QDR/*
>exclude sys:/system/20010017.QDR/*
>exclude sys:/system/2A010007.QDR/*
>exclude sys:/system/2C020023.QDR/*
>
>that don's seem to exclude.  He gets errors sometimes on files that
>should have been excluded.  Does anyone see anything wrong with these
>excludes?  Thanks.
>
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> Email Address:  andyc AT andyc.carenet DOT org
>
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>  old saying is.  Teach him how you will, a pig will never
>  play the flute"
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