From: Peter Thomas on 05/29/97 09:58 AM
Thanks to all who replied; sure enough; changing the Exclude to using a
single * from *.* has worked GREAT!
Peter Thomas
Manulife Financial
Phone: (416)963-7371
Fax: (416)926-5454
From: courtney @ TIMKEN.COM on 28/05/97 08:02 AM
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To: ADSM-L @ VM.MARIST.EDU
cc: (bcc: ADSM)
Subject: Re: WinNT: Include / Exclude lists
> 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\...\*.*
>
> 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
Peter,
Take a close look at the failing filename: "admin000". Unlike Dos and
Win95, the advanced operating systems such as UNIX and OS/2 typically do
not treat the period as a special character in a filename -- it's just
another symbol like an alpha, numeric, dash, etc. In other words, if you
specify "*.*" for the exclude, you are telling ADSTAR to look for all
files containing at least one period in their names, just as "*-*" would
look for files containing one or more dashes.
The filename "admin000" is not the same as "admin000." on NT, UNIX, or
OS/2. This better handling of periods allows these systems to use files
such as "CONFIG.SYS.BACKUP" or "MYPROG.C.RELEASE.19970528" which can
be extremely convenient if you're a developer! :-)
Try using "*:\...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\*" in your EXCLUDE statement, and I
suspect you'll have better results.
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