Hi All,

Thank you all for your help. I tried to remove the asterisk and the backup
succeeded. Thank you Katherine, Mark, Steve, Karim & bob and sorry I didn't
mention that our master server & client on the same machine.

Thanks All,

Mohamed Wahdan





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From: bob944 [*mailto:bob944 at attglobal.net* <bob944 at attglobal.net>]

Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 8:58 AM

To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Mohamed Wahdan

Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Exclude lists

> I have a problem that we have a policy for a filesystem which contains

> a large number of files with a differential backup and it fails with

> status 41 (network connection timed out) I tried first to increase the

> CLIENT_READ_TIMEOUT to 1800 and it worked for some time then failed

> again with the same error.

> I got a list of directories (which contain the largest number of

> files) to exclude from the backup with exclude lists. I created the

> file exclude_list.POLICY-NAME in the path /usr/openv/netbackup

> including these directories like:

> /dir1/*

> /dir2/*

> and I got the same error again. [...]

Try /dir1 and /dir2 (without the asterisk).

Now that Symantec has screwed up the search site, I can't find the technote,
nor can I find this in SAG I, but I believe that

A. /dir/* will generate the list of dir's contents, then exclude them

B. /dir will exclude that directory without enumerating its contents

In A, you cause the situation you're trying to avoid. In B, I don't believe
anything below dir will be examined. (As a minor point, the dir node itself
would be backed up in A but not in B.)

If anyone can point to the technote or doc page, I'd appreciate it.
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