> >Does anyone see something in the following EXCLUDE statement that would
> >still allow the directory path, subdirs, and files to be backed up anyway?
> >
> >exclude /var/opt/OV/share/databases/openview/ovwdb/current/*.*
>
> There is still amazing resistance out there to using the v3 exclude
> options, EXCLUDE.DIR and EXCLUDE.FS .  In particular, EXCLUDE.DIR is
> intended to avoid the incidental traversal of subdirectories.
> Please, folks, use them and avoid all the anguish.
>     Richard Sims, BU

I was out-of-town last week, and am just now catching up on email.  I
would just like to point out that the exclude/include syntax is platform
specific.  That is, using the above example, the *.* in windows exclude
all filenames.filetypes, but on a unix client, it only excludes files
whose names contain a dot, or period character.

The best way, as Richard says, is:

exclude.dir /var/opt/OV/share/databases/openview/ovwdb/current

Steve Roder, University at Buffalo
VM Systems Programmer
UNIX Systems Administrator (Solaris and AIX)
ADSM Administrator
(tkssteve AT buffalo DOT edu | (716)645-3564 | 
http://ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu/~tkssteve)