Well actually in your case, it should probably read 
like this

oradata/*/*/*dbf

*dbf will natually exclude all of the files ending in 
dbf.

My Rule of Thumb:
These are basically regular expressions, so if you 
couldn't use it in a find or ls or whatever else you 
could pass a regular expression to, then it won't work 
in the exclude list (with some exceptions, I'm sure).

The more you understand regular expressions the more 
flexible the product becomes. 

David

Quoting Jason Ahrens <ahrensj AT psi DOT ca>:

> Running NetBackup 3.2, solaris server/clients.
>
> I have an exclude list on the client 'hawk' which 
states:
> hawk:/[1]# cat /usr/openv/netbackup/exclude_list
> #Standard excludes core
> *.o
> /tmp
> /proc
> /cdrom
> lost+found
> #We do not want to backup .dbf files. Live oracle 
databases
> oradata/dbf
>
> According to information I saw posted here, this 
should include all dbf
> files under any level of depth under any oradata 
directory on the system.
>
> (ie: /u01/oradata/level1/level2/data.dbf should be 
excluded)
> This doesn't seem to be the case. I checked the 
results of my backup and
> found all the dbf files backed up. As apparently I 
have an issue with the
> pattern.
>
> Perhaps oradata/*.dbf would work?
>
> The issue is, I do not want to grab the live 
databases (*.dbf) *anwhere*
> at any depth bellow any directory that is named 
oradata (ie: regex
> 'oradata/.*/\*\.dbf' should be excluded)
>
> Thanks
> Jason
>
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