Bill Fitzsimons asks:

>Below is a copy of one of my options files.  I am trying to exclude all
>directories except for the 2 listed with the INCLUDE statements.   When I
>monitor the incremental via RCONSOLE I see all files and directories being
>sent as part of the incremental backup.  The client is at level 2.1.03.  Are
>the EXCLUDE and INCLUDE statements case sensative?

(rest of post, except for INCLUDE/EXCLUDE list deleted)

>EXCLUDE                   mailpo5-ph-ussu\sys:\system\net$obj.sys
>EXCLUDE                   mailpo5-ph-ussu\sys:\system\net$prop.sys
>EXCLUDE                   mailpo5-ph-ussu\sys:\system\net$val.sys
>EXCLUDE                   mailpo5-ph-ussu\sys:\system\secaudit.log
>EXCLUDE                   mailpo5-ph-ussu\sys:\system\events.log
>EXCLUDE                   mailpo5-ph-ussu\sys:\system\system.log
>EXCLUDE                   mailpo5-ph-ussu\sys:\system\btrieve.trn
>EXCLUDE                   mailpo5-ph-ussu\sys:\system\tsa\tsa$temp.*
>EXCLUDE                   mailpo5-ph-ussu\sys:\system\sys$log.err
>EXCLUDE                   mailpo5-ph-ussu\sys:\vol$log.err
>EXCLUDE                   mailpo5-ph-ussu\sys:\tts$log.err
>EXCLUDE                   mailpo5-ph-ussu\sys:\*

>INCLUDE                   mailpo5-ph-ussu\sys:\po03ussu\mailpo\maildata\*
>INCLUDE                   mailpo5-ph-ussu\sys:\po04ussu\mailpo\maildata\*

A few of things:

1) On the directories you want backed up, if you want subdirectories, you
   should code like this:

      INCLUDE mailpo5-ph-ussu\sys:\po03ussu\mailpo\maildata\...\*
      INCLUDE mailpo5-ph-ussu\sys:\po04ussu\mailpo\maildata\...\*

2) If all you care about are those two directories, they you can simplify the
   include/exclude list as follows:

      EXCLUDE mailpo5-ph-ussu\sys:\...\*
      INCLUDE mailpo5-ph-ussu\sys:\po03ussu\mailpo\maildata\...\*
      INCLUDE mailpo5-ph-ussu\sys:\po04ussu\mailpo\maildata\...\*

3) Note that we still back up the directories for excluded files. But the files
   themselves will be excluded.

Andy Raibeck
ADSM Level 2 Support