unfortunately, I think your going to have to do the cumbersome route, unless things have changed.
removing the use of "*.dbf " was introduced in 5.0 MP1 without any documantation. Since then VERITAS came out with a technote
After installing 5.0 Maintenance Pack 1, Exclude Lists will no longer work when relative paths with imbedded directory delimiters are specified.
http://support.veritas.com/docs/267716
This upset a lot of people as backups started to miss windows and tapes started to get full sooner than expected.Message was edited by:
Bob Stump