Change your exclude statement to:

   exclude *:\...\*

But the above will still cause the rest of the file system to be traversed
and the directory structure backed up. If you don't want that, then try
doing something like this:

- From the command line, issue:

   dsmc i "c:\program files\soonandsoforth\" -subdir=yes

- For a scheduled backup, define a schedule whose OBJECTS setting includes
the desired file spec:

   define schedule mydomain mysched objects='"c:\program
files\soonandsoforth\"' -options="-subdir=yes"

Of course, you don't need the -subdir option if you don't care to process
subdirectories.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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O.K.

4.2.1 client running on W2K server. There's a folder nested under the
Program Files directory structure, the contents of which I need to back
up. What I don't need is the other 2GB or so of mess that's in that same
structure. Since you can't (as far as I'm aware) use the exclude.dir
command and still get any part of the specified folder, what's the best
way to pick out this one directory? I really don't want to have a whole
raft of exclude.dir statements, in fact this one folder is really the
only piece of the whole file system I  need.

Would the following work?

exclude ?:*
include "c:\program files\soonandsoforth\*" mc



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