Excluding items BE2014

[DASFTP]

I have been seeing items I exclude in backups appearing as being backed up in the restore tabs in BE2014.  Has this been an issue with others?  I verify the item is deselectd in the "browse" tab as well as the "selection details" tab. I run the backup and it still backups up the item. I see this occuring on serveral servers that I'm testing.  I found I needed unselect the whole server and then select it again in the backup job. Then deselect the item again and run the job. This worked on a few of the test jobs but it should work the first time.  I'm having to go back to jobs continually to see if my changes actually have taken affect.

[pkh]

The items may not be in the backup. BE 2014 will present a view of all the files that are backed up in the backup chain. So if a file is backed up in the first incremental job and is deleted from subsequent backups, you will still see it when you expand the backup sets for the subsequent backups

[DASFTP]

I currently have a "Backup-Level Exclusions" to exclude - *\*.bak [subdir].  Which I presume should exclude all .bak files on the server. I had a full backup run over the weekend.  Last night I had a differential run and the .BAK files showed up in the restore tab as being backed up on both the FULL and Diff backed up the .BAK files.  I excluded these files prior to the full backup.

[pkh]

Specifying global excludes is tricky and I think you got it wrong.  See this document on how to specify a global exclude.

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH29548

Although this is for an older version of BE, the essence is still the same.

[DASFTP]

Thanks for the article, but I'm actually not trying to do global exclusion. I'm trying to exclude certain files from certain jobs. I used the example of .BAK files for a specific server as I have excluded it from a job, however BE2014 continually backs it up. I have also tried to deselect a few SQL database from a job. In the selection box there is a red X on the database I do not want to backup.  However, when the backup runs, I received an error message saying the job failed and shows the two database I'm trying to exclude. Maybe I just need to recreate the job. I was hoping not to do have to do this on every job that I'm trying to excluded a certain file, database or folder.

[pkh]

As I said earlier, exclusions are tricky and often syntax errors are made. Unfortunately, you would just have to debug the errors yourself

[DASFTP]

Maybe I didn't explain the issue well enough. There is no syntax issue. I'm simply unchecking the box next to the SQL database or folder so BE2014 won't backup the items. I will search for a work around.