On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:15:21 +0100
"Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM" <Eric-van.Loon AT KLM DOT COM> wrote:

> Hi *SM-ers!
> I must be doing something wrong. My PC (WinNT, 5.1.6 client) has a network
> drive E:. I want everything but E:\Inetpub (and all underlying files and
> directories) on E: excluded from the backup.
> My dsm.opt contains the following lines:
>
> INCLUDE "E:\Inetpub\...\*"
> EXCLUDE.DIR "E:\...\*"
> Exclude "E:\*"
>
> However, the GUI shows all files and directories excluded and the backup
> backs up nothing.
> I'm lost...
> Kindest regards,
> Eric van Loon
> KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
>

On default, network-drives are not backed-up, so you must do some magic to
include that drive for back-up.... (just like nfs-mounts ;-)

Also, since you do a exclude.dir, the include is never parsed (exclude.dir
takes presedence) so you must use exclude

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