I didn't think 267716 applied to file names, just paths.

But 267716 also says 'Exclude lists without a preceding "/" won't work'.

I agree with Mark, this is a serious step backward.  Veritas didn't 
recode to improve performance when there is no leading "/", but took 
away a valuable and documented feature! Bad. 

For example, I have changed traditional status code 1 backups to 0's 
just be excluding the (Netscape) "parent.lock" file (on Windows 
desktops).  Finding the path to "parent.lock" is MUCH more difficult, as 
it varies from client to client.

The 5.1 doc (SAG Vol I Pg 142) shows an example of a relative path and 
file name without a path specified.  :-(

But then the same 5.0 manual has the exact same example on the exact 
same page.

This isn't a new feature, ladies and gentlemen; it's a (documented after 
the fact) bug.  :-(

If Veritas refuses to correct this, shouldn't we have a tool to help 
find the entries that no longer work?  A fairly simple server script 
using bpgetconfig should do the trick.

cheers, wayne

P.S. I haven't verified Mike Day's observation (he may have a space 
after each file name), but suspect his conclusion is correct and 
important to most of us.

Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com wrote, in part,  on 9/21/2004 1:43 PM:

>Anybody know if this travesty of usability was carried up into the v5.1
>version?
>-M
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>Yes after installing 5.0 MP1  please see technote
>http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/267716.htm
>
>Many were upset that VERITAS took so long to get this information out. 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>Does anyone know why when I've excluded the following the files still get
>backed up?  As you will see I've even tried using different syntax.  I've
>been successful excluding folders but the owner of the server does not want
>me to exclude the parent folders and sub-folders will continue to be created
>in the future.
>
>I'm trying to exclude SAP/Oracle database files with 'data??' and 'dbf'
>extensions.  Here's what I've put in the exclude tab on the client
>properties using the Administration Console:
>
>*.DATA*
>*.data*
>*.data??
>*.dbf
>*.DBF
>
>Master/Media is AIX 5.5.  Administration console is run on a Windows 2000
>server.  I'm using DataCenter 4.5(6) and the client is a Windows 2000
>server.
>
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