Hopefully, someone already gave you a reply but if not ...

The exclude list on Windows PCs is located in the Registry since NB 3.1 (I
think) at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veritas\NetBackup\CurrentVersion\Config\

The value is Exclude and the Data Type is REG_MULTI_SZ.

Here's the info the NB Help files:

------------------------------------------------
If an exclude list has the following entries:

C:\home\doe\john
C:\home\doe\abc\
C:\home\*\test
C:\*\temp
temp

the following are excluded from server directed backups:

The file or folder named C:\home\doe\john.

The folder C:\home\doe\abc (because the exclude entry ends with \).

All files or folders named test that are two levels below home.

All files or folders named temp that are two levels below the root.

All files or folders named temp at any level. 
--------------------------------------------------

I believe you can also use *.ost to exclude any files with .ost extensions
anywhere in the file system and based on my experiences, no service
stop/restart is needed to take affect.


Regards,
Ken Young
Texas Instruments Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Speier, Guy J - CNF [mailto:Speier.Guy AT cnf DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 3:45 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] exclude list


on NT machines, can I create an exclude_list that exisit as a flat file?  If
so, where
does it live?  After editing it, do I need to stop / start the services?
Also,
to exclude something like D:\foo\bar on a W2K machine is it:
D:\foo\bar
-or-
/D/foo/bar
-or-
something completely different?

thanks,
G
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