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ltjimster
Level 6
13 years ago

Excluding files not working

Hello,

I've setup on my backup system to exclude certain files Via Manage Selections\Excludes and its been working fine but all of a sudden its stopped working.

I've tried closing Backup Exec completely (12.5 version if you need to know), stopping all the services and restarting them but its still showing on the test run as backing everything up and i need it to work properly please.

HELP!!!!

Thanks

James

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  • ltjimster's avatar
    ltjimster
    13 years ago

    Right scrap what i've just done above instead of making a new backup selection, so i went back to how your supposed to do in the "manage selection\excludes" selection and  i normally setup in the excludes list as followed;

    Path: \\servername\D:\

    File: *.*avi; *.*mp3; *.*jpg ........ etc, several files at once.

    and i've had to do 1 file at a time now which is stupid really and was time consuming to do because i have a lot of jobs :(, Example of what I've had to do now;

    First Entry;

    Path: \\servername\D:\

    File: *.*avi

    Second Entry

    Path: \\servername\D:\

    File: *.*mp3

    Can Symantec Find out why in the BLUE HELL it's done that??

    Thanks

    James

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  • Ken_Putnam's avatar
    Ken_Putnam
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    Granted it was only created last Nov, but according to

     

    http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH174271

     

    How to use the Include / Exclude selection option  

    When specifying file types only use one file type per selection include rule.

    Apparently you had slipped through a crack before, and it finally caught up to you

    {shrug}

  • ltjimster's avatar
    ltjimster
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    Well i've not hacked anything if thats what you mean.

    Maybe it should be an update because it seems stupid to do 1 file type at a time.

    Oh well......... thank you for letting me know

    James

  • Ken_Putnam's avatar
    Ken_Putnam
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    Well i've not hacked anything if thats what you mean.

    Not at all.  I merely meant that you were doing something not explicitly supported, that DID work for some versions, but no longer does

     

    You can go to the Idea section at https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/backup-and-archiving/ideas and add this as a suggestion for future releases.  If it gets enough "thumbs up" it may be included in a SP or future release

    You may want to word it something like 

    Provide support for entering multiple file types on one EXCLUDES line, separated by ";"    

    for example

     

     

  • Lesta_G's avatar
    Lesta_G
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    Any recent hotfixes applied in the last few weeks?

    If so uninstall them and see if it is fixed