Coming at it from an equally Dilbert fashion ... "watch out what you ask 
for .. you might get it!"

Does management know that "excluding files" is not correcting the 
problem of a partial backup, but just masking it?

Does management want those files backed up or ignored?!

Indeed, I don't think partial backups are successful!  Is the status 
code 1 because of some files I *really* do care about?  NetBackup 
doesn't make it easy to tell.

Anyway, to the question, on Unix, the excludes are files on the client. 
Normally, the all-policy, all-schedule file would be

   /usr/openv/netbackup/exclude_list

cheers, wayne

Jennifer Hooper wrote, in part,  on 1/7/2005 12:34 PM:

> Good morning gang -
>  
>     I have a problem that I hope I can get resolved fairly easily.  
> For whatever reason, our management is not accepting that partial 
> backups are indeed successful, and want me to fix all of the servers 
> with partial successes - even if it's 1 or 2 files.  The only way I 
> can do this is to put in exclude files in each of my Windows 
> NT/2000/2003 servers that are having this problem.  Oh yeah, and 
> probably all of the *nix ones too.  So I'm wondering if anyone has a 
> good recommended list and process for this.