Bill,

You don't say what you've tried, so maybe I'm going all over the place
on this, but if you put the following in a directive you assign to these
clients or put it in the /.nsr file on the client, it should work:

<< / >>
    +skip: vicep*

Frank

Bill Hewitt wrote:
> I am backing up several afs file servers. In their / partition, they
> have a whole bunch of raw afs partitions all of whose names start with
> vicep that I want to exclude from the backups.
> I want to use wildcards to say ignore any file/directory whose name
> starts with vicep in the / directory.
> Preliminary attempts at this didn't do as I expected. Is it me, or is
> this a harder problem that it looks at first glance.
> 
> I'm currently running 7.1 on solaris servers.
> 
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