Off the top of my head, what about...

<< /project/data/dev >>
      +skip *.*


and in your other directive...

<< /project/data/test >>
   +skip *.*


Allan.

>>> Brendan.Sandes AT NRE.VIC.GOV DOT AU 13/11/02 22:46:56 >>>
Hi All.

I'm trying to create a directive on the server that will skip a subdirectory.
The manual says that skip "omits the specified files and directories from the
backup" so I'm assuming that it acutally does this.

The situation is that we have a partition /project with two large directories
(DEV and TEST (about 180GB each) that we want to backup on alternating nights.
E.g. DEV on Monday and TEST on Tuesday etc.  The way to do this seems to be to
create two client entries with two seperate groups and use different directives
(would have been nice to have had the data on seperate partitions I agree).  (I
only mention this to illustrate why I cannot have a .nsr directory in the top
level)

So I have /project/data/DEV and /project/data/TEST

What I tried to do was to create a new directive that would skip the DEV
directory.
I have a seperate group set up.  I created a sepearate client.  Put the
directive name into the client, browse, retention periods, & added the saveset
of /project

I have tried the following - none of which work.  It always backs up the DEV
directory:

skip :  DEV
-------------------------
+skip: DEV
-------------------------
<< /project >>
skip: DEV
-------------------------
<< /project >>
+skip: DEV
-------------------------
<< "/project" >>
+skip: DEV
-------------------------
<< "/project" >>
+skip: "DEV"
-------------------------


I cannot think of any more ways to try it.  Any suggestions?  Every example I
can find deals with skipping files.

The other thing is, is it possible to do this from the root level?  I have 5
partitions that are mounted which can all contain these directories and I don't
want to have to change the directive each time we create or destroy a partition.

Cheers
Brendan

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