Exclude folder no matter where it is

[Altair]

Hi,

Our corporate policy is to require users to place any personal files into a folder named DoNotBackup on server shares or desktops to exclude it from nightly backups.  So the folders could be:

\\fileserver\shares\Users\someuser\DoNotBackup,
\\fileserver\shares\Users\someuser\Documents\DoNotBackup,
\\fileserver\shares\Users\someuser\some\random\folder\named\defined\by\user\DoNotBackup, 
\\fileserver\shares\Shared\DoNotBackup,
\\emailserver\[ROOT]\home\someuser\DoNotBackup,
and so on

This has been fine with some of our in-house backup solutions, but I can't quite get the exclusion right for BE2012.  Right now, I have this in my job selection, but it doesn't seem to work:

\\*\*\**\DoNotBackup\*.* /SUBDIR /EXCLUDE

Is this not the correct syntax for this type of exclusion?

Thanks!

[Ken_Putnam]

See http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO74388

Include/Exclude options

Specifically the "**" wild card in the path field

[Altair]

Thanks.  As you can see, I have that in my exception.  Are you saying I shouldn't?

[Ken_Putnam · Accepted solution]

Sorry, missed that
 

Looks to me like what you have should work   Have no idea why it doesn't

[Altair]

Okay, possibly a change I made (was using a ? instead of ** and realized that was wrong) won't take effect until after the next full backup?  We're on a full/diff/incr scheme.