Reinhard Mersch <mersch AT UNI-MUENSTER DOT DE> writes:

> Geoff Allen writes:
>  > We are using include/exclude. The problem is that even if you exclude
>  > files using the include/exclude file, ADSM still traverses (and backs
>  > up, if I recall correctly) the entire directory structure.
>
> Exclude.Fs avoids this. Exclude.Dir also avoids it, but when testing it
> I had problems excluding the top level directory of a file space.

Ok. Thanks.

We started with version 2, and I never retried it with version 3.

I did try exclude.dir, but found it didn't work, probably for the same
reason you note.

> I had that situation, while on version 2. On version 3, I'm now happy to
> be able to let the DOMAIN statement default to ALL-LOCAL and exclude the
> file systems I do not want to backup via Exclude.Fs.

This is exactly what I was looking for. I'll give exclude.fs a try.

Geoff

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