Intuitively, you'd think it would work. Probably because we've
all gotten used to regular expressions and other pattern-matching
goodies. The following line from the "ADSM V3R1 UNIX
Backup-Archive Client" manual, however, suggests otherwise:

"*  The match-all character matches zero or more characters;
    it does not go across a directory boundary. Use it in the
    file name; do not use it in the directory name." (p. 76)

Granted, Estee is using the NT client and not a UNIX variant, but
I'm guessing that this code is shared and the same text appears
in the NT Backup-Archive Client manual.

For an alternate approach, there appear to be no restrictions as
to where a character class (e.g. [a-z] )can be specified. If the
universe of "*.ft" is fixed-length, you may be able to do the
following:

  exclude *:\...\[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9].ft\*.*

This should exclude all files that are of the form

   ...\ab.ft\*.*
   ...\a0.ft\*.*
   ...\b8.ft\*.*

etc.

 -- Tom

Thomas A. La Porte
DreamWorks Feature Animation
tlaporte AT anim.dreamworks DOT com

On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, John Stephens wrote:

>Yes:
>Your exclude statement should work..
>
>John Stephens
>Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
>Stephens AT Storsol DOT com
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf 
>> Of
>> Estee Chen
>> Sent: Friday, March 19, 1999 1:32 PM
>> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>> Subject: exclude option
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>> Is the following exclude statement valid ?
>>
>>   exclude   *:\...\*.ft\*.*
>>
>> I want to exclude a few directories which ends with ".ft" and all it's
>> subdirectories and files. I'm running NT Client 3.1.0.6
>> How can I achieve that?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Estee Chen
>>
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>>
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