On Jan 16, 2008, at 7:42 PM, Lepre, James wrote:

Ok that is true thank you.. However I also have

EXCLUDE.BACKUP "*:\...\*.ldf"
EXCLUDE.BACKUP "*:\...\*.mdf"
EXCLUDE.BACKUP "*:\...\*.ndf"

And these extensions are still showing up in the activity log as open
files that are trying to be backed up.. Any thoughts

James -

Unless there is something beyond my ken going on, I would have to
conclude that either the operation being performed is not Backup, or
that the process performing what we perceive to be a Backup is not
using the expected options file to pick up those Excludes.  I would
recommend verifying whether the issue persists in a manual backup
that was preceded by a verifying 'dsmc q inclexcl'.  You could pursue
a client trace to further narrow down the problem.  Consider also
boosting the maintenance level of that client, which is currently
very early 5.3.

If this problem started happening at a point in time, and was not
happening before, look into what system changes and/or service
restarts coincidentally occurred.

   Richard Sims