It's limited to the target client's abilty to pattern match for filenames.
For example, "*a*b*c" works in unix but Windows is too limited to match
something as complex as this.

So, what you've got will work but you should write it in filesystem
patterns:

/data/[a-m]*
/data/[n-z]*

Don't forget that, as written, a file, "/data/Apple" wouldn't match because
of the leading capital letter.

You can also do this in one policy:

NEW_STREAM
/data/[a-m]*
NEW_STREAM
/data/[n-z]*


-M

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Matthew
Hall
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 11:40 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Regex policy backup?



I have a large volume I'd like to backup, perhaps with separate
policies - but it's a single directory as far as the server is
concerned.

I'd like to do something like

policyA: backup /data/[^a-m]
policyB: backup /data/[^n-z]

I'm currently using NetBackups 4.5 for unix.

Thanks,

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