Correct your entry. It should read
 
    exclude.dir *:\...\logcaster\

Ideally, rather than the exclude.dir, you could exclude the files you wish with

    exclude *:\...\logcaster\...\*

This choice will allow you to backup (and restore) the directory structure 
under "logcaster" without having to backup troublesome files within the 
structure.

--
Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)

 
 

        -----Original Message----- 
        From: Dearman, Richard [mailto:rdearm1 AT UIC DOT EDU] 
        Sent: Tue 1/13/2004 14:34 
        To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU 
        Cc: 
        Subject: Exclude.dir statements
        
        

        I want to exclude some directories from being backed up so I can stop 
the
        file backup failure notifications I get.  So I created the following 
server
        client opt statement and assigned it to the options set of this client 
but
        it doesn't appear to be working.  I don't set my client opts in the 
dsm.opt
        files on each client I try to make them server defined client opts just 
to
        have a central place to control things.
        
        
        
        Here is the client option statement I am using but it doesn't appear to 
be
        working because I keep getting messages about file backup failures for 
that
        directory.  The drive it is trying to backup is a local drive so I 
don't now
        why the UNC path is showing in the error log
        
        
        
        
        
        Exclude.dir *:\...\logcaster\*
        
        
        
        
        
        Here is the message I keep getting.
        
        
        
        
        
        01/13/2004 01:38:41 ANS4037E File '\\uimcc21\c$\Program Files\LogCaster
        CME\bin\service_watcher_home\PerfDB\000014\UIMCC21\2004\01\13.lpf' 
changed
        during processing.  File skipped.
        
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