April-

I stand corrected, you are right that the Microsoft registry keys 
referenced in that MS KB article do indeed apply to NetBackup backups 
of a windows client.

I must admit that I had to do some tests of my own before I would 
believe it.

That'll teach me to stray from my Unix roots!  :-))
rob


On May 3, 2005, at 11:26 PM, April Kelley wrote:

> Actually, I asked that very question of veritas, sorry I forgot to 
> include that answer.
>
>   "Netbackup will use that registry key mentioned, it doesn't use 
> ntbackup.exec though.
>
> NTBackup is a very old version of backup exec."
>
> That being said, I agree that there are better ways than editing the 
> registry.
>
> April
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Worman (home) [mailto:rob AT worman DOT org]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 7:57 PM
> To: April Kelley
> Cc: Louis-Luc Le Guerrier; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Recursively exclude files from Windows 
> backups
>
>
> April's response below is perfectly correct (NetBackup exclude lists
> exist on the client, in the windows registry) but I don't think that
> the Microsoft knowledgebase link is relevant, as it is all about how to
> exclude files from backups using the Windows "ntbackup" utility.  (no
> relation to NETbackup)
>
> Here's a Veritas technote on the topic, which refers to the actual
> registry keys:
>
>    http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/237447.htm
>    (it refers to NetBackup 3.x, but the information is valid for
> NetBackup 4.5 and 5.x too)
>
> But rather than mucking with the registry, you might find it easier to
> just modify the exclude list via the NetBackup GUI, as is described
> starting on p.350 of the NetBackup 5.1 windows manual:
>
>
> http://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/
> NetBackup_Enterprise_Server/268192.pdf
>
> HTH
> rob
>
>
>
> On May 2, 2005, at 8:25 PM, April Kelley wrote:
>
>> I recently asked this same question of support...
>>
>> "You can only exclude per client currently, there is an article from
>> MS which gives some information on how to exclude from a system level,
>> but its still on a per client basis also. You may be able to push out
>> this setting via a group policy for windows clients, its a reg key
>> change.
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;233427";
>>
>> April Kelley
>> Complex Hosting Support
>> Hostcentric, an Interland Company
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Louis-Luc
>> Le Guerrier
>> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 10:33 AM
>> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Recursively exclude files from Windows backups
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>> I am using Veritas Netbackup 5.1 on Solaris 9 machine (server)
>> and with some SUN and Windows clients. I'd like to recursively
>> exclude all files *.ABC from the Windows client. That means
>> all files with that extension from all directories on the
>> drive. I know on UNIX you place an 'exclude_list' file, but
>> how do you do that on the Windows client?
>> And how do you do the effect recursively?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
>> Louis-Luc
>>
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