Yes but if you’re doing multiple policies on the same host chances are the exclusion lists are more relevant to each policy than global.   For example here we typically have policies such as:

SERVERNAME-OS = Operating System files (e.g. root, /etc, /var, /usr …)

SERVERNAME-INST-DB = Oracle Database Instance name backup (e.g. /database/instdata01, /database/instdata02, /database/instidx01 etc…)

If I wanted to exclude /database from SERVERNAME-OS and put in exclude_list rather than exclude_list.SERVERNAME-OS it means my SERVERNAME-INST-DB would not backup the files I’d specified since they are in the global exclude list.   To me it seems much cleaner to make exclude lists for specific policies.

......or, you can use exclude_list, and the path gets excluded for all policies.


Scott E. George
Technical Specialist - Lead
UNIX Systems Administrator
Phone:  (216)896-2197
E-mail:  Scott.George AT Parker DOT com

To erase the question mark below:  The exclude file MUST be on the
client the policy is backing up.   As also noted below it must match the
name of the policy exactly including case.

exclude_list.MYBACKUP would not be used by a the policy mybackup or
mYbackup or MYBACKuP.

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Not much to go on.

Where is the file? What machine do you have it on (needs to be on the
client)?

File name is case sensitive and has to exactly match the policy name.
Compare the output of 'ls /usr/openv/netbackup' (on the client) to
bppllist (on the master, gives the list of policies).
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Unix Exclude_list

I have Unix/Solaris clients, everything running Netbackup Entrprise
7.0.1.
I can't get the exclude_list.<policy name> to work. I'm trying to
exclude
a path (   /<path-name> and all sub directories. Doesn't seem to read
the
file. Any ideas anyone have knowledge  why it does not seem to work?
Master
server
is running Solaris 10. Thanks


Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore & associates, Inc.
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