You could simply specifiy only C:\ as the saveset and not All. This
would only backup C:\. Next, you could create a custom directive for
this client as:
<< "C:\" >>
skip: "program files\exchsrv"
Not sure about the double quotes, but I think when working with NT or
Windows systems, you have to use the double quotes if the path name
contains spaces. Unfortunatley, though, I'm not sure that you would
capture SYSTEM STATE:\ if you did not specifify 'All' for the saveset.
So, maybe specifiying 'All' and then using the following custom
directive would be better:
<< "C:\" >>
skip: "program files\exchsrv"
<< "D:\" >>
skip: *.*
<< "F:\" >>
skip: *.*
<< "M:\" >>
skip: *.*
I don't really see any reason to use +skip when you're skipping the
whole thing anyway. I normally employ '+skip' when I want to back up the
whole thing, but I want to skip one thing recursively under there.
That's what the '+' is for. For example, let's suppose I want to back up
all of M:\ but I want to skip any occurence of the directory 'foo' or
the file 'Robin.hood' that might live anywhere under there. I could use
the following:
<< "M:\" >>
+skip: foo
+skip: Robin.hood
If I just said: 'skip' and not '+skip', then only occurences of these
files at the root level of M:\ would be skipped, not those that might
occur deeper down.
BUT, if I wanted to skip everything under M:\, I should be able to just
say:
<< "M:\" >>
skip: *.*
In this case, NetWorker is not going to just skip stuff in the root area
of M:\ Instead, it will skip everything downward because it's already
ignoring all the files and directories at that level anyway.
Hope this helps.
George
Brad Walan wrote:
>
> What is the correct syntax to perform the following on a Windows server.
> I created a custom directive but it keeps trying to back up the drives I
> told it to omit.
>
> 1. I have an Exchange 2000 server with drives: c, d, f, m
> 2. I only want to backup the C: drive since I backed up the Data stores
> using the MSEXCH directive.
>
> So how can I get the job to skip drives d, f, and m. And skip the
> c:\program files\exchsrv directory but h=get the rest of c:\ and System
> Stare etc..
>
> I tried:
>
> <<"c:\">>
> All
> <<"d:\">>
> +skip: *.*
>
> etc.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Brad
>
> Brad Walan
> Vivato Inc.
> San Francisco Office
> 415-946-3217
>
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