We have entered /etc/mnttab in the exclude lists for the 
weekly, monthly, and incremental backups for our solaris 8 and 9 clients.

it appears to still be backing up this file. As per this output of bperror
below this is the trimmed exclude list

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svr01:/export/home/sdeiter/goods# bperror -U -jobid 55822
    TIME            SERVER/CLIENT                      TEXT
07/20/2004 22:04:48 svr01 svr1bk  added backup job (jobid=55822) for client
                    svr1bk, policy Unix-Cumu, schedule UnixCumulative part 2
                    to NetBackup scheduler work queue
07/20/2004 22:33:03 svr01 svr1bk  started backup job for client svr1bk,
policy
                    Unix-Cumu, schedule UnixCumulative on storage unit
                    svr01-dlt3-robot-tld-0
07/20/2004 22:33:03 svr01 svr1bk  client svr1bk handling path /etc/mnttab
07/20/2004 22:33:05 svr01bk svr1bk  begin writing backup id
svr1bk_1090377183,
                    copy 1, fragment 1, to media id U00009 on drive index 1
07/20/2004 22:33:11 svr01bk svr1bk  successfully wrote backup id
                    svr1bk_1090377183, copy 1, 32 Kbytes
07/20/2004 22:33:12 svr01bk svr1bk  CLIENT svr1bk  POLICY Unix-Cumu  SCHED
                    UnixCumulative  EXIT STATUS 0 (the requested operation
was
                    successfully completed)
svr01:/export/home/sdeiter/goods#
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svr1:/usr/openv/netbackup#more exclude_list.Unix-Cumu.UnixCumulative
/proc
/dev/fd
/cdrom
/etc/mnttab
/tmp

svr1:/usr/openv/netbackup#
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>From    Scott Deiter 
        Hanover Direct, Inc. 
        Tech services 
        (717) 633-3298 
        scottd AT hanoverdirect DOT com