Hello Christo,
Is it maybe because of \* you should code instead of \*.*,
 try also -subdir=yes

Regards, Rene Lambelet

>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Christo Heuër [SMTP:christoh AT ABSA.CO DOT ZA]
>Sent:  Friday, October 17, 1997 3:09 PM
>To:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject:       Selective backup & Novell
>
>Hi All,
>
>I've run into a problem on our Netware servers that doesn't
>seem to figure...
>We have a Novell 3.12 server running the latest ADSM code,
>and we can not get a full backup of the system.
>There is only one volume 'SYS:\'
>We set up a schedule    action=selective
>                        objects="sys:\...\*.*"
>There is about two gig of data to be backed up on this
>server, but we only get about 5K backed up and then the schedule
>ends sucessfully.
>I'm either going nuts or is there something I'm missing?
>
>TIA
>Christo