The '?' character matches exactly one character. Examples of matches for your *:\documents? pattern:
c:\documents1 f:\documents$ Examples that do NOT match: c:\Documents and Settings t:\documents If you are interested in excluding all directories whose names begin with "documents", then a better pattern would be: *:\documents* However, if you are truly only interested in excluding "C:\Documents and Settings", then you should specify that explicit name: exclude.dir "c:\documents and settings" (the casing is insignificant) Please see http://msgs.adsm.org/cgi-bin/get/adsm0210/693.html for an example of how to properly code the DEFINE CLIENTOPT command when the pattern contains blank spaces. Hope this helps. Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence. Rick Harderwijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/15/2003 13:40 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Exclude issue [Whoops, retry] Hi *SMers, I just did a q act and saw that TSM (4.2) tried to backup files in the Documents and Settings folder (W2k), even though I have this exclude in my clientoption settings: Option: INCLEXCL Sequence number: 26 Override: No Option Value: exclude.dir *:\documents? Why doesn't this seem to work while other exclude.dir options do work? Is there a problem with the wildcards?? Kind regards, Rick Harderwijk Systems Administrator Factotum Media BV Oosterengweg 44 1212 CN Hilversum P.O. Box 335 1200 AH Hilversum The Netherlands Tel: +31-35-6881166 Fax: +31-35-6881199 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
