Got only one reply kindly telling me to read the sysadmin guide (SAG).
Actually I had done that before I asked the list. But the chapter in the
SAG describing how to use RE to exclude files/directories just gives
some simple examples and is not very helpful.

I have to add the following RE's to the exclude_list file to make the
exclude thing work:

/lotus/nbtest/[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][0-9][0-9][0-9]
/lotus/nbtest/[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][0-9][0-9][0-9][a-zA-Z]

I'd be interested to know if you have a better way to do this.

Thanks,

Rongsheng Fang



> I am trying to exclude some directories/files for a client when doing
> backup by compiling the /usr/openv/netbackup/exclude_list file on the
> client. I tried a couple of different patterns but none worked so far
> (no files were excluded after the backup was done):
> 
> /lotus/nbtest/[A-Z]{4}[0-9]{3}[a-zA-Z]?
> /lotus/nbtest/[A-Z]+[0-9]+[a-zA-Z]?
> /lotus/nbtest/[A-Z]+[0-9]+[a-zA-Z]*
> 
> The file/directory I want to exclude has the following format:
> 
> ABCD124 or ABCD124a or ABCD123E
> 
> Did I miss something or make wrong patterns? Could anybody please shed
> some light on this?
> 
> Master/Media: NB Enterprise 5.0 MP3 + Solaris 9
> Clients:      NB Enterprise 5.0 MP3 + Solaris 8.