Thanks, I had tried that when we first went to V2r1m2 many months ago
and it didn't work. I should try it again now that my UNIX clients are
all at v2r1m5 thru m8.

Dennis Riley               riley AT timken DOT com
Technical Principal        330-471-3515
The Timken Company         Canton, OH
"Worldwide Leader in Bearings & Steel"

On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Boireau, Eric (MED-Cap Gemini) wrote:

> Hello,
> May be I wrong but you have to exclude a directory :
> exclude /dir1/.../*
>
> Eric
>
> > ----------
> > From:         Dennis Riley[SMTP:riley AT TIMKEN DOT COM]
> > Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> > Sent:         jeudi 29 janvier 1998 13:48
> > To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject:      Re: exclude directories
> >
> > Actually, I found version 2 to not work as I thought it was designed.
> > In
> > order to exclude subdirectories, I had to have a seperate line for
> > each
> > level. Example:
> >   exclude /dir1/dir2/*       # this only excluded files under
> > /dir/dir2
> >   exclude /dir1/dir2/*/*     # to get the next subdirectory level
> >   exclude /dir1/dir2/*/*/*   # to get the next level - see a pattern?
> >
> > Dennis Riley               riley AT timken DOT com
> > Technical Principal        330-471-3515
> > The Timken Company         Canton, OH
> > "Worldwide Leader in Bearings & Steel"
> >
> > On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Heinz Flemming wrote:
> >
> > > According to Mark Steph:
> > > > This seems like a FAQ, but I have looked at IBM's FAQ, looked
> > through the
> > > > manual, searched dejanews, etc...
> > > >
> > > > I am having difficulty excluding directories on a unix (solaris)
> > platform
> > > > using ADSM's ir-regular expressions.  I have tried every
> > permutation I can
> > > > think of with exclude and exclude.dir, but I still get unwanted
> > directories
> > > > in my backups.  What am I missing?
> > > >
> > >   If you use a V2 client: it works as designed
> > >
> > >   In V3 there are more exclude-possibilities:
> > >      - exclude.dir    excludes an entire dir from backup
> > >      - exclude.file   excludes a file from backup services only
> > >
> > > Heinz
> > >
> > >
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> > >
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