On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Terry Phelps wrote:

>We're running server 3.1.2.50 and clients 3.1.0.7 on Windows NT. The problem
>is that I can't make exclude statements in the CLIENT dsm.opt file have an
>effect when a scheduled backup (from the server) is run. Actually, that's
>not exactly true, but  almost true, which is strange. Specifically: we kept
>getting an error when ADSM tried to backup dsmsched.log, so we put an
>exclude statement into dsm.opt (on the client) and it HAS stopped trying to
>backup that file. However, two more exclude statements that I put into the
>dsm.opt file do NOT have any effect. They look like this:
>
>Exclude d:\mssql7\data\*

What do the filenames in "d:\mssql7\data\" look like? Are they of
the form "filename.ext" ?

If so, I don't believe you're exclude statement covers
those files. You will probably also need the following line:

Exclude d:\mssql7\data\*.*