Yeah - I'd agree with Paul here.  Naming a file "core" is not smart.
There's no "fix" to this coming because, frankly, it ain't broken.

Excludes are by name only, NB can't tell a true core file from a file named
"core".  

-M

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[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Paul
Keating
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 12:10 PM
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Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Does anyone use file excludes - careful about
using "core"


I once (in a previous life) had a restore request from a user for /tmp,
which we didn't back up for obvious enough reasons.

Anyhow, this person had been storing files in /tmp for months, untill
one fine day the system was rebooted for maintainance, and all of his
hard work dissappeared.

Sometimes it technical, and sometimes it's user education.

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
> William David Phillips
> Sent: January 19, 2005 1:59 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Does anyone use file excludes - 
> careful about using "core"
> 
> 
> On restoring a partition we discovered that all files and directories 
> named core were not backed up.  It had nothing to do with the 
> file being 
> a core file.  Only explicitly exclude core files with a known 
> path and 
> name unless you are certain none of your users will ever use the name 
> core.  I don't know if this is fixed in a later release.
> 
> David

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