Since NBU installs GNU tar and uses that for backups you might want to
try just doing a test with that tar (not the one that was installed with
your Linux though that is GNU tar as well) and see how it handles
specifying the ~ or the \~ in exclude.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Justin
Piszcz
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 12:53 PM
To: Pekala, Laura
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] exclude list for Linux server



On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Pekala, Laura wrote:

>
>
> Good afternoon.
> We are running NBU 5.1 MP5 on an HP/UX 11.11 system. I have found an
issue
> with a Linux machine we back up and was wondering if anyone can help.
I need
> to know if files using special characters can be excluded from the
backups.
> The file names I need to exclude are as follows:
>
> ~V7#####
>
> No one here seems to know if we can exclude the tilda.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks
> Laura
>
>

Hrm, I am not sure if it would work but you could try \~VT - see if it 
will take a regular expression by putting a backslash before the 
character.

Justin.
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