Hindle, Greg wrote:

> Hello,
> Does anyone use file excludes when they backup a UNIX or windows 
> server? For example excluding the paging file 'pagefile.sys' when 
> backing up a windows server? A situation came up here where I work and 
> I need to push out a "standard" set of files to exclude on UNIX and 
> windows servers.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Greg
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On unix i make good use of exclude files

The standard exclude_list i roll out to all clients is as follows

core
/proc
/tmp
/cdrom
/dev/fd
/var/crash
/var/run
/var/tmp
/etc/mnttab

Then i exclude files for certain backups which are not required, eg 
log_files which i have in a separate log_archiving policy

Hope this helps

Dave