It looks as though you are working with the Notes agent with the $notesdir.
If on your server you have \notedata or just want to backup all m*.nsf files
anywhere, use the

Exclude *:\...\*.*              ***this will exlcude all your files on any 
drives
Exclude *:\*.*

Include *:\...\m*.nsf           *** this will include the nsf files starting 
with m
from all                                                        subdirectories

John Stephens
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
http://www.Storsol.com
Stephens AT Storsol DOT com
813-505-2526

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
> Herve Chibois
> Sent: Friday, March 26, 1999 1:38 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Notes : inclexcl not working well
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> ==> Question 1
>
> My undestanding of the Notes incl_excl syntax seems not to be clear. I
> only want to backup databases which
> names begins with M and exclude all the other dbs.
>
> we have on our server :
>
> D:\NOTEDATA\MAILDIRECTORY.NSF
> D:\NOTEDATA\MAIL\MYUSER.NSF
> D:\NOTEDATA\MYUSER.FT\
>
> I coded :
>
> exclude ?:\$NOTESDIR\...\*
> include ?:\$NOTESDIR\...\M*.nsf
>
> Where is the error ?
>
> ==> Question 2
> Is there a way to use the incl_excl syntax when using the command line
> interface ?
>
> Thanx
> Rv
>