Exclude list clarification

You shouldn't have to end it with /
"If the pattern does not end in / (for example, /usr/test), NetBackup excludes both files and directories with that path name"
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO33489#v41534009

Is there a more specific exclude already on the client?

"For a given backup, NetBackup uses a single exclude list - the list that contains the most specific name. "

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO33491#v41534067

There are no other exclude lists on this client:

 ls -l /usr/openv/netbackup/
total 92
drwxr-xr-x  3 root bin   4096 Oct  2 12:29 baremetal
drwxr-xr-x  5 root bin   4096 Oct  2 12:29 bin
-rw-r--r--  1 root bin    249 Oct  2 15:29 bp.conf
drwxr-xr-x  2 root bin   4096 Oct  2 12:29 dbext
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   130 Oct  2 17:14 exclude_list
drwxr-xr-x  3 root bin   4096 Oct  2 12:29 ext
drwxr-xr-x  3 root bin   4096 Oct  2 12:29 help
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    39 Oct  2 15:25 include_list
drwxr-xr-x 63 root bin   4096 Oct  3 10:57 logs
-rw-r--r--  1 root bin  10220 Oct  2 12:29 nblog.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root bin  10220 Nov 24  2013 nblog.conf.template
-rw-r--r--  1 root bin   1064 Nov 24  2013 nblu.conf.template
drwxr-xr-x  3 root bin   4096 Oct  2 12:29 sec
-rw-r--r--  1 root bin  22415 Nov 24  2013 vfm.conf
 

Here is the bpbkar log on the client:

Why is it excluding /gluster_volume/ only?

15:21:26.174 [52766] <4> bpbkar main: real locales <C>
15:21:26.174 [52766] <4> bpbkar main: standardized locales - mnt_lc_messages <C> mnt_lc_ctype <C> mnt_lc_time <C> mnt_lc_collate <C> mnt_lc_numeric <C>
15:21:26.200 [52766] <2> logparams: bpbkar -r 5356800 -ru root -dt 0 -to 0 -bpstart_time 1412364383 -clnt VL-MD-TVMOAM002-BK -class AUTO_UNIX_BK005_MO -sched FULL -st FULL -bpstart_to 300 -bpend_to 300 -read_to 1800 -blks_per_buffer 512 -use_otm -throttle -throttle_kbytes 12500 -b VL-MD-TVMOAM002-BK_1412364083 -kl 30 -use_ofb
15:21:26.200 [52766] <2> bpbkar main: hole_granularity = 256.
15:21:26.203 [52766] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv KEYWORD=NONE
15:21:26.203 [52766] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv STREAM_PID=52766
15:21:26.203 [52766] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv STREAM_NUMBER=0
15:21:26.203 [52766] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv STREAM_COUNT=0
15:21:26.203 [52766] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv STREAMS=0
15:21:26.203 [52766] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv BPSTART_TIMEOUT=300
15:21:26.203 [52766] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv BPEND_TIMEOUT=300
15:21:26.203 [52766] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv RESTARTED=0
15:21:26.203 [52766] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv BACKUPID=VL-MD-TVMOAM002-BK_1412364083
15:21:26.203 [52766] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv UNIXBACKUPTIME=1412364083
15:21:26.203 [52766] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv BACKUPTIME=Fri Oct  3 15:21:23 2014

15:21:26.204 [52766] <4> bpbkar: INF - BACKUP START 52766
15:21:26.204 [52766] <4> bpbkar: INF - Estimate:-1 -1
15:21:26.208 [52766] <2> bpbkar add_to_filelist: starting sizeof(filelistrec) <128>
15:21:26.208 [52766] <4> bpbkar: INF - Throttle duration required = 40960 usec.
15:21:26.208 [52766] <4> bpbkar: start to backup filelist / ,nb_fscp_enabled is 0
15:21:26.208 [52766] <4> bpbkar: INF - Processing /
15:21:26.220 [52766] <4> bpbkar: Device changing from 0 to 64768
15:21:26.220 [52766] <4> check_file_sparseness: File </core> is probably sparse. Size = 32808960 st_blocks = 1400 block_size = 512, fstype = 37
15:21:26.254 [52766] <2> fscp_is_tracked: disabled tla_init
15:21:26.255 [52766] <8> bpbkar: WRN - [/proc] is on file system type PROC. Skipping
15:21:26.255 [52766] <4> bpbkar: Device changing from 64768 to 2049
15:21:33.243 [52766] <4> bpbkar: Device changing from 2049 to 64768
15:21:33.857 [52766] <4> is_excluded: Excluded /gluster_volume by exclude_list entry /gluster_volume/
15:21:35.188 [52766] <4> check_file_sparseness: File </etc/mail/mailertable.db> is probably sparse. Size = 12288 st_blocks = 16 block_size = 512, fstype = 37
15:21:35.188 [52766] <4> check_file_sparseness: File </etc/mail/virtusertable.db> is probably sparse. Size = 12288 st_blocks = 16 block_size = 512, fstype = 37
15:21:35.209 [52766] <4> check_file_sparseness: File </etc/mail/domaintable.db> is probably sparse. Size = 12288 st_blocks = 16 block_size = 512, fstype = 37
15:26:10.840 [45027] <16> bpbkar: ERR - bpbkar killed by SIGPIPE
15:26:10.840 [45027] <16> bpbkar: ERR - bpbkar FATAL exit status = 40: network connection broken
15:26:10.840 [45027] <4> bpbkar: INF - EXIT STATUS 40: network connection broken
15:26:10.840 [45027] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv FINISHED=0

because /gluster_volume/  is in your exclude list..

see the exclude list that you posted in first post

What version of NB is the client running?
Do you see anything in the bpbkar log about the client ignoring the exclude list? (Was a 7.0-7.1.0.1 issue about this though I cannot image why it would work for one entry and not the rest.)

Master and client are both running 7.5.0.7 on linux RHEL 6

What you see is the log, until it starts writing to tape and I abort the backup, so it should have, by that time, decided what files to backup.

Ah, good work! I've seen that before but it did not spring to mind because the list posted in the forum did not have them.