Ok that is true thank you.. However I also have 

EXCLUDE.BACKUP "*:\...\*.ldf"
EXCLUDE.BACKUP "*:\...\*.mdf"
EXCLUDE.BACKUP "*:\...\*.ndf"

And these extensions are still showing up in the activity log as open
files that are trying to be backed up.. Any thoughts
-----Original Message-- ---
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Richard Sims
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 7:27 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] INCLUDE/EXCLUDE

James -

I'm not a Windows guru, but one thing apparent from your Exclude
specifications is that

    Exclude.dir "d:\MSSQL2000\MSSQL\Data\*.*"

doesn't make sense for what I perceive you are trying to achieve:
that's a filename pattern on the end, for legacy "8.3" filenames,
with a dot in them, whereas Exclude.Dir is supposed to simply name a
single directory or a wildcard-identified set of directories.

    Richard Sims     a DOS survivor

  
  
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