Re: WinNT: Include / Exclude lists

On Mon, 26 May 1997, Peter Thomas wrote:

> From: Peter Thomas on 05/26/97 01:44 PM
>
> In the creation of an Exclude statement under Windows/NT, is the "case" of
> the directory names coded important?
>
> Checking the outputs from my scheduled backups, I see that slthough I do
> have coded an
>   EXCLUDE            *:\...\PAGEFILE.SYS
>   EXCLUDE            *:\...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\*.*
>   EXCLUDE            *:\...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\...\*.*

According to what I found out experimentally, the problem is with the
wildcards in your example. Your EXCLUDEs should read

  EXCLUDE            *:\...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\*
  EXCLUDE            *:\...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\...\*

Contrary to DOS wildcard behaviour,  *.*  matches only files whose name
contains a period, whereas  *  matches all files.

If you look at the DSM.OPT distributed with the WIN32 client,
it appears that even the people who prepared the original
INCL/EXCL-List were uncertain about ADSM's wildcard semantics,
since the original file reads similar to

  EXCLUDE            *:\...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\*
  EXCLUDE            *:\...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\*.*
  EXCLUDE            *:\...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\...\*
  EXCLUDE            *:\...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\...\*.*

This has created some confusion with our users.

Sincerely,   M.F.

>
> there are errors in the DSMSCHED.LOG saying
>   ANS4228E Sending of object 'C:\WINNT35\system32\config\admin000' failed
>   ANS4090E Access to the specified file or directory is denied
>   ...
>   ANS4638E Incremental backup of 'C:' finished with 6 failure

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