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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section II. Configuring hosts
  4. Configuring Host Properties
  5. Exclude Lists properties
  6. Syntax rules for exclude lists
  7. Example of a Windows client exclude list
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Example of a Windows client exclude list

Assume that an exclude list in the Exclude Lists host properties contains the following entries:

C:\users\doe\john

C:\users\doe\abc\

C:\users\*\test

C:\*\temp

core

Given the exclude list example, the following files, and directories are excluded from automatic backups:

  • The file or directory named C:\users\doe\john.

  • The directory C:\users\doe\abc\ (because the exclude entry ends with \).

  • All files or directories named test that are two levels beneath users on drive C.

  • All files or directories named temp that are two levels beneath the root directory on drive C.

  • All files or directories named core at any level and on any drive.

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