I never saw an answer to this on this mailing list and I just figured it out for myself so I thought I'd answer it.

To exclude files using Veritas you have to use a directive like follows:

SET EXCLUDE=*.PST

This directive is passed directly to the NDMP process and is ignored by Netbackup.

Joel Justen

-----Original Message----- From: Todd C. Merrill [mailto:tmerrill@mathworks.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 5:33 PM To: Tom "Mad Dog" Yergeau Cc: 'toasters@mathworks.com' Subject: Re: Excluding files from NDMP backup

On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Tom "Mad Dog" Yergeau wrote:

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Is there a way to exclude files from an NDMP backup? By

this I'm asking both

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(1) A subdirectory of a volume or qtree that's being backed up (2) Files with specific extensions (e.g. *.pst files so you

don't back up

...

Exchange email archives)

We're using Veritas NetBackup 3.4.

I'd very much appreciate knowing if this was possible, too. I'm using gtar with the --exclude-from=FILE option because it's faster for me to backup 25-35% of the useful data via NFS than 100% of the data via NDMP.

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