You do _not_ need to use the *.* syntax.

If you change the option file, you must stop and restart the scheduler (and
dsm/dsmc) to get it to re-read the options.

On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Thomas A. La Porte wrote:

> 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\*.*
>