> As far as I know there is no way to prevent dsm to run into an excluded
> subtree. You can only exclude files. No doubt, there are environments which
> require to exclude directories, too. In our case the missing feature
> causes the dsm schedule process to examine 400000 files although I can
> clearly state in advance that none of the files is a candidate for backup.
>
> I am waiting of the response to the PMR I have written for this problem.

You can do this for remote file systems by only mounting the directory
you want to back up.  However, I've tried to do it on local file
systems and it doesn't work.

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Jo Ann Malina, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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