Dear Gurus,
Apologies for the beginner's question...

I have noticed from looking at the bpbkar log that the backup hangs on
the directory which has 1.5 million files in it (client is RHEL 5.2
with NetBackup 6.5, server is RHEL 5.5 with NetBackup 6.5.6) . "ls -al
/my/huge/dir" takes 3-4 hours, the file system is GFS which makes it
even slower. No surprise that NetBackup is having trouble.


I am trying to exclude the problematic directory from the backup and
added "/my/huge/dir/*" to /usr/openv/netbackup/exclude_list. I'd like
to avoid reading this huge list of files but this doesn't achive the
purpose. Please see the last lines from bpbkar log :

12:28:41.917 [3560] <4> bpbkar: INF - Excluded /my/huge/dir/file_aaa
by exclude_list entry /my/huge/dir/*
12:28:41.933 [3560] <4> bpbkar: INF - Excluded /my/huge/dir/file_aaan
by exclude_list entry /my/huge/dir/*
12:28:41.943 [3560] <4> bpbkar: INF - Excluded /my/huge/dir/file_aaab
by exclude_list entry /my/huge/dir/*
12:28:41.948 [3560] <4> bpbkar: INF - Excluded /my/huge/dir/file_aaac
by exclude_list entry /my/huge/dir/*
12:28:41.959 [3560] <4> bpbkar: INF - Excluded /my/huge/dir/file_aaaz
by exclude_list entry /my/huge/dir/*
12:28:41.969 [3560] <4> bpbkar: INF - Excluded /my/huge/dir/file_aaag
by exclude_list entry /my/huge/dir/*
12:28:55.288 [3560] <16> bpbkar: ERR - bpbkar killed by SIGPIPE
12:28:55.289 [3560] <16> bpbkar: ERR - bpbkar FATAL exit status = 40:
network connection broken
12:28:55.289 [3560] <4> bpbkar: INF - EXIT STATUS 40: network connection broken
12:28:55.289 [3560] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv FINISHED=0

It looks like bpbkar is trying to go through each and every file in
"/my/huge/dir" and trying to make a decision on each file
individually.


QUESTION: Is it possible to avoid the "/my/huge/dir/" as a whole and
avoid reading the directory contents?


Thank you,
Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy
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