Excludes in BU 11d

Email help is out for this product so Symantec says to use the Forums. But nobody from Symantec replies to it. Wow! Maybe it's because we only bought over 75 licenses and over 90 agents for tens maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars worth??

Use the ** wildcard instead of the single *. The single * only replaces that specific folder level, so in your examples you are specifying ONLY that one level and one location.

The ** wildcard will exclude the file or folder ANYWHERE on the system.

For example, try \\**\*.tmp /EXCLUDE or \\**\Temp\*.* /SUBDIR /EXCLUDE

Your pagefile exclude probably works because it happens to point specifically at that path. I would gather that some of your tmp files backed up are from different folder levels than the one you specified.

When I try the syntax you propose I get the "no selection exist for this ressource" error message.

\\**\ in the path field and
*.tmp in the file field

When I say OK to the error message it puts back the path to \\*\*\ and then it acceps the path and file fields.

Try

\\*\**\*.tmp
\\*\**\TEMP\*.*

So that would be "any server\(at any level)\*.tmp etc

Message was edited by:
Ken Putnam

Leave the Path at c:\ (or whatever drive letter needed)
Put "**\*.tmp" in the file section (minus the " ")

Ken,

When you say

"Try

\\*\**\*.tmp
\\*\**\TEMP\*.*

So that would be "any server\(at any level)\*.tmp etc"

can you be more specific about what you would enter in the Path and File fields in the Include/Exclude Files window?

I cannot use D B info because I want this exclusion to be on all and any drives.

Thanks
SergeMessage was edited by:
Serge Archambault

path would be

"\\*\*\**" (Any server\Any Share\Any Level on that share)
and file would be *.TMP

and

\\*\*\**\Temp
*.* /subdir

(I haven't played with exclusions for awhile. but those should work

I'll try that. The server accepts the synthax you proposed. The results are:

\\*\*\**\*.tmp /EXCLUDE
\\*\*\**\Temp\*.* /SUBDIR /EXCLUDE

Thanks
Serge

It works. Merci beaucoup Ken. (Many Thanks in french)

Serge

il n'ya pas de quoi

(if memory serves :-) )