EXCLUDE /root.b
   This will cause a *file* called "root.b" in the root file system to be
excluded.

EXCLUDE /.../root.b/.../
   I'm not sure what this will do. It might cause any *file* called "root.b" in
the
root file system, or any subdirectory within root, to be excluded. But that's
just
a guess, as this is an incomplete syntax.

EXCLUDE /root.b/*
   This will cause all files directly under /root.b to be excluded. It will
*not*
exclude files within subdirectories of /root.b. For example, /root.b/myfile1.txt
will be excluded, but /root.b/mydir/myfile1.txt will *not* be excluded.

EXCLUDE /root\.b
   I'm not sure what this will do. It might cause a file called ".b" located in
the directory called "/root" to be excluded.

EXCLUDE /root.b/.../*
   This will cause any file in /root.b (and subdirectories of /root.b) to be
excluded. This is probably the specification you are looking for.

EXCLUDE /.../root.b/.../*
   This will cause any file in any directory called /root.b (and its
subdirectories) *in the root file system* to be excluded.

It is important to note that the file system name must be coded as part of the
INCLUDE or EXCLUDE statement. Thus all of these examples pertain to the / (root)
file system only (assuming that, as has been stated, root.b is a directory and
not a file system). For example, if I want to exclude all files called
MYFILE.TXT
in the / and /home file systems, I will need *two* EXCLUDE statements:

EXCLUDE /.../MYFILE.TXT
EXCLUDE /HOME/.../MYFILE.TXT

Hope this helps,

Andy Raibeck
ADSM Level 2 Support

        ADSM-L @ VM.MARIST.EDU
        09-24-97 06:07 AM
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To: ADSM-L @ VM.MARIST.EDU @ internet
cc:
Subject: Re: excluding dir names with dots in them

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?

Steve (unVMix Systems Programmer/Dude) Roder
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