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Cannot get wildcards to work on a NDMP backup

rock7171
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Master is on 7.6.0.2 and running AIX Media Servers (5230) is on 7.6.0.2

Tried

root_vdm_1/Home/Home/[a-jA-J}* and root_vdm_1/Home/Home/a* but get status error 106 (paths is incorrect)

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Marianne
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Did you see the following in NetBackup for NDMP Administrator's Guide   ?

Note: Directory-level expansion is not supported for some NDMP servers. Some
NDMP filer vendors do not have the APIs that Symantec uses to support wildcard
characters lower than the volume level.

If you specify a backup selection using wildcard characters lower than the volume
level for these filers, status code 106 is generated.
The following message is
displayed: Invalid file pathname found, cannot process request.
Currently, only NetApp disk arrays support wildcard characters for backup selections
lower than the volume level.

You cannot use any wildcard characters that also match file names. For example,
a backup selection might include /vol/vol_archive_01/autoit*. This specification
might match a path name such as /vol/vol_archive_01/autoit_01/. However,
if this specification also matches a file name like
/vol/vol_archive_01/autoit-v1-setup.exe, the backup job fails with status
code 99 because wildcards can specify only path names. The following message
is displayed: NDMP backup failure (99).

See Table 3-1 for valid examples.
 

PS: you are using a square and curly bracket?
[a-jA-J}*

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Marianne
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Did you see the following in NetBackup for NDMP Administrator's Guide   ?

Note: Directory-level expansion is not supported for some NDMP servers. Some
NDMP filer vendors do not have the APIs that Symantec uses to support wildcard
characters lower than the volume level.

If you specify a backup selection using wildcard characters lower than the volume
level for these filers, status code 106 is generated.
The following message is
displayed: Invalid file pathname found, cannot process request.
Currently, only NetApp disk arrays support wildcard characters for backup selections
lower than the volume level.

You cannot use any wildcard characters that also match file names. For example,
a backup selection might include /vol/vol_archive_01/autoit*. This specification
might match a path name such as /vol/vol_archive_01/autoit_01/. However,
if this specification also matches a file name like
/vol/vol_archive_01/autoit-v1-setup.exe, the backup job fails with status
code 99 because wildcards can specify only path names. The following message
is displayed: NDMP backup failure (99).

See Table 3-1 for valid examples.
 

PS: you are using a square and curly bracket?
[a-jA-J}*