Give it a try this way. I have done it this way for windows clients from a 
windows master, but not from a unix master.

bpsetconfig -h hostname filename

Entries in your file need to be like this.

exclude = C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\*.lock
exclude = C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\bprd.d\*.lock
exclude = C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\bpsched.d\*.lock
exclude = C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackupDB\data\*
exclude = C:\Program Files\Veritas\Volmgr\misc\*
exclude = E:\
exclude = F:\

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