exclude.dir overrides everything else, so leave that out.
After that, the list in dsm.opt is read from the bottom up.
So what you need is:

EXCLUDE "D:\...\*"
INCLUDE "D:\backmeup\*"



On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Michael Green <mishagreen AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:

> I'm banging my head against something that supposed to be rather simple.
>
> There is a windows machine and it has a disk -- disk D:
> Disk D: has all sorts of things on it. Among them a folder called
> 'backmeup'.
> I need to backup that folder and nothing else.
>
> What sequence of INCLUDE - EXCLUDE statements will do the job?
>
> The following sequence doesn't work.
>
> INCLUDE "D:\backmeup\*"
> EXCLUDE "D:\...\*"
> EXCLUDE.DIR "D:\*"
> --
> Warm regards,
> Michael Green
>