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[Veritas-bu] File Exclusions

2004-09-21 16:20:48
Subject: [Veritas-bu] File Exclusions
From: wtsmith AT maine DOT edu (Wayne T Smith)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 16:20:48 -0400
But if  /*/ can mean any depth, why would they show /*/ and /*/*/ etc in 
an example?

I guess some tests are in order, at least for me to understand 
include/excludes.   cheers, wayne

Darren Dunham wrote, in part,  on 9/21/2004 4:23 PM:

>>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.
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>Yes, but can't you just specify it as /*/parent.lock ?  That's how I'm
>interpreting the support document.
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>>This isn't a new feature, ladies and gentlemen; it's a (documented after 
>>the fact) bug.  :-(
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>It's a bug if they didn't intend it to happen and are working to remove
>it.  There's no sign that they're working to change this.
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>>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.
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>It seems to me that not only finding them, a simple translation by
>adding /* could be done also.
>
>Of course if that were possible, you'd presume that the NBU process
>could do the same thing after reading the file into memory before acting
>on it....
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