Richard  Thanks,

I may use that as a last resort if no other option is available.

Richard Sims wrote:

> On Jan 3, 2006, at 10:39 AM, Timothy Hughes wrote:
>
> > In generating Backupsets is there any way to exclude a directory
> > from being included in a backup set? ...
>
> Whereas the command is programmed to collect all the Active files,
> doing 'dsmc EXPire' of that directory and its files from the client
> would be the one way I can think of, as unappealing as that is.
>
>     Richard Sims