Actually correct syntax is:

    exclude.dir *:\...\logcaster

Note that there should be no terminating slash at the end of the
specification.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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"Stapleton, Mark" <stapleto AT BERBEE DOT COM>
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
01/13/2004 13:38
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        Subject:        Re: Exclude.dir statements


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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