Why, in the Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide v5.2 for Unix 
does it recommend having the following as a minimum in the backup.excl file.

exclude /unix/                  >  yet to come across a directory called unix 
on solaris, aix or linux.. so what do these two unix statements do?
exclude.dir /unix/              >
exclude /.../core                       > I know what this does

And finally, we've implemented the following (//.../*) in a backup.excl list 
and proven that it does work, however, it's not documented anywhere in the 
manuals so we don't want to deploy companywide
until we get confirmation that there are no adverse effects.

The first line excludes any file systems that may be added to a client without 
our knowledge.  However, it was excluding / (root) as well.  Note: we put the 
extra / in front of root, and it now works.
Does anyone have any insight?

exclude /*/.../*
include //.../* 31VER_31DAYS
include /var/.../* 31VER_31DAYS
include /orabackup/.../* 31VER_31DAYS
include /orahome/.../* 31VER_31DAYS
include /orapirelarch/.../* 31VER_31DAYS
include /app/lzrchk/.../* 31VER_31DAYS
exclude /.../core
exclude.fs /tmp
exclude.fs /etc/mnttab
exclude.fs /var/run
exclude.fs /dev/fd
exclude.fs /etc/mnttab
exclude.fs /proc
exclude.fs /orapirel01
exclude.fs /orapirel02
exclude.fs /orapirel03


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