> I find your logic a bit flawed.  NetBackup puts job in the scheduler queue
> right when the backup window opens, even before contacting the client system.
> Since the exclude_list is on the client, the master server doesn't even
> know of its existence until the job actually starts.  Having to make contact
> with the client prior to queuing a job would introduce lots of delays, which
> could be horrendous if there were hundreds of clients in a backup enterprise.

Hmm.  Does it?  The client backup list here is ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES.  I've
got to believe that the client is queried first for the drives, then the
server creates jobs for each.

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