The '?' character matches exactly one character. Examples of matches for
your *:\documents? pattern:

   c:\documents1
   f:\documents$

Examples that do NOT match:

   c:\Documents and Settings
   t:\documents

If you are interested in excluding all directories whose names begin with
"documents", then a better pattern would be:

   *:\documents*

However, if you are truly only interested in excluding "C:\Documents and
Settings", then you should specify that explicit name:

   exclude.dir "c:\documents and settings"

(the casing is insignificant)

Please see http://msgs.adsm.org/cgi-bin/get/adsm0210/693.html for an
example of how to properly code the DEFINE CLIENTOPT command when the
pattern contains blank spaces.

Hope this helps.

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com

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Rick Harderwijk <rharderwijk AT FACTOTUMMEDIA DOT NL>
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Hi *SMers,

I just did a q act and saw that TSM (4.2) tried to backup files in the
Documents and Settings folder (W2k), even though I have this exclude in my
clientoption settings:

         Option: INCLEXCL
Sequence number: 26
       Override: No
   Option Value: exclude.dir *:\documents?

Why doesn't this seem to work while other exclude.dir options do work? Is
there a problem with the wildcards??



Kind regards,

Rick Harderwijk
Systems Administrator
Factotum Media BV
Oosterengweg 44
1212 CN Hilversum
P.O. Box 335
1200 AH Hilversum
The Netherlands
Tel: +31-35-6881166
Fax: +31-35-6881199
E: rharderwijk AT factotummedia DOT nl