Also, if you really want to prune the tree, you should use exclude.fs or exclude.dir directives, otherwise TSM will back up directories.
_____________________________ William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology, Inc "Glass, Peter" <Peter.K.Glass@WELLS To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FARGO.COM> cc: Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Subject: exclude syntax frustration Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] U> 01/04/2002 05:45 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" TSM seems to ignore our exclude statements, no matter which wildcard syntax we use. For example, we have filesystems called /db1/oracle, /db2/oracle, etc. through /db30/oracle that we want to exclude. We've tried: exclude /db[1-30]/oracle/.../* and exclude /db*/oracle/.../* and exclude /.../oracle/.../* without success: in each case, the backups still try to backup the files under these directories. The backups usually fail to pick up the files, because the files change during the backup, which is why we want to exclude them. Are we misunderstanding how wildcards are supposed to work with exclude statements? Or is this a product bug? Peter Glass Distributed Storage Management (DSM) Wells Fargo Services Company > * 612-667-0086 * 866-407-5362 > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] >