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  1. Home
  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section II. Configuring hosts
  4. Configuring Host Properties
  5. Exclude Lists properties
  6. Configuring the exclude list on a Windows client from a UNIX master server
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Configuring the exclude list on a Windows client from a UNIX master server

An administrator can change the exclude list on a Windows client from a UNIX master server by using the nbgetconfig (or bpgetconfig) and the nbsetconfig (or bpsetconfig) commands.

Configuring the exclude list on a Windows client from a UNIX master server

  1. From the UNIX server, use the nbgetconfig command to access the exclude list on a Windows client.

    For example, where:

    nbmaster1 is a UNIX master server.

    nbmedia1 is a Windows computer and a NetBackup client.

    On nbmaster1, run the following command:

    /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/nbgetconfig -M nbmedia1 EXCLUDE

    The output lists the exclude list on nbmedia1:

    EXCLUDE = C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\*.lock
    EXCLUDE = C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\bprd.d\*.lock
    EXCLUDE = C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\bpsched.d\*.lock
    EXCLUDE = C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackupDB\data\*
    EXCLUDE = C:\Program Files\Veritas\Volmgr\misc\*
  2. Create an exclude list on the UNIX server.

    For example, file ex_list on nbmaster1:

    vi /tmp/ex_list

    The contents of ex_list consists of the following files and directories:

    more /tmp/ex_list
    EXCLUDE = C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\*.lock
    EXCLUDE = C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\bprd.d\*.lock
    EXCLUDE = C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\bpsched.d\*.lock
    EXCLUDE = C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackupDB\data\*
    EXCLUDE = C:\Program Files\Veritas\Volmgr\misc\*
    EXCLUDE = C:\
    EXCLUDE = D:\
  3. From the UNIX server, use the nbsetconfig command to set the exclude list on a Windows client.

    For example, run the following command on nbmaster1 to make ex_list the exclude list on client nbmedia1:

    /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/nbsetconfig -h nbmedia1 /tmp/ex_list
  4. On the UNIX server, use the nbgetconfig command to view the new exclude list on the Windows client.

    For example:

    /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/nbgetconfig -M nbmedia1 EXCLUDE

    The output lists the updated exclude list on nbmedia1:

    EXCLUDE = C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\*.lock
    EXCLUDE = C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\bprd.d\*.lock
    EXCLUDE = C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\bpsched.d\*.lock
    EXCLUDE = C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackupDB\data\*
    EXCLUDE = C:\Program Files\Veritas\Volmgr\misc\*
    EXCLUDE = C:\
    EXCLUDE = D:\

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