Replying to: Steven P Roder <tkssteve AT ACSU.BUFFALO DOT EDU> (Wed, 24 Sep 1997
08:44:00 -0400)

>On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Rui Malheiro wrote:
>> >     I am having a problem excluding the directory /root.b and all of it's
>> >files from incremental backups.  In the client include-exclude file, I
>> >have tried:
>> >
>> >/root.b
>> >/.../root.b/.../
>> >/root.b/*
>> >/root\.b
>>
>> On AIX, (and Win95/NT), it works fine using:
>>
>> Exclude /.../root.b/.../*
>> or
>> Exclude /root.b/.../*
>
>These seem to do the trick.  Still, I wonder why a simple /root.b/* does
>not work?  IBM?

Because it's not suposed to work. If you specify /somedir/* you are telling
the client to include/exclude files on /somedir only. It's not recursive. If
you want to include subdirs you have to use /somedir/.../*. And the "*" at
the end is mandatory.

--
Rui Malheiro,
Rui Malheiro,
6 Mil - Tecnologias de Informacao
URL: <http://www.6mil.pt/>