Dan's example will exclude anything in the oradata directories.  If it is
just dbf files you want exclude (backing up other files that are in the
oradata directories) then I believe oradata/*dbf should work.  Without the *
it will only match files named "dbf".

-----Original Message-----
From: Sixbury, Dan [mailto:dsixbury AT saint-lukes DOT org]
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 8:21 AM
To: 'Jason Ahrens'; Veritas NBU
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Exclude list question


If all the dbf files are under oradata/something/something directories you
should just use the following in the exclude_list:

*.o
/tmp
/proc
/cdrom
lost+found
#We do not want to backup .dbf files. Live oracle databases
oradata


Dan S.



-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Ahrens [mailto:ahrensj AT psi DOT ca]
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 10:16 AM
To: Veritas NBU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Exclude list question


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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