Installation and User's Guide

The following example assumes that local drive letter g is mapped to the remoteshare point:\\remote\booksYou would like to exclude from backups all files at the root of this share point thathave an extension of .txt. You could use either of the following commands:exclude g:*.txtexclude \\remote\books\*.txtYou cannot specify UNC names for removable drives such as DVD, ZIP, ordiskette. For example, the following command is not valid:exclude \\ocean\a$\winnt\system32\...\*Include and exclude files that contain wildcard charactersYou must use special escape characters when including or excluding files anddirectories that contain wildcard characters.Tivoli Storage Manager treats wildcard characters in different ways on differentplatforms.The names of directories and files can contain different symbols. The types ofsymbols that are allowed depend on the operating system.For example, on Windows, the names of directories and files should not containthe following symbols:?*"/\:|However, they can contain the following symbols:[]To specify files and directories in include and exclude statements, you must usethe escape character "\" to specify the wildcards. However, the escape charactercan only be used inside the character classes "[]".The following examples illustrate how to specify files and directories that containwildcard characters using the escape character and character classes ininclude-exclude statements.To exclude the single directory C:\[dir2] from backup processing, enter thefollowing in the dsm.opt file:exclude.dir "C:\[\[]dir2[\]]"To exclude the single file C:\file[.txt from backup processing, enter thefollowing in the dsm.opt file:exclude.dir "C:\file[\[].txt"Tip: If you use the Preferences Editor to include or exclude a single file ordirectory that contains wildcard characters, you must manually edit the include orexclude statement to escape the wildcard characters. The Preferences Editor doesnot automatically escape the wildcard characters. Follow the previous examples toedit the include or exclude statements in the dsm.opt file or the include-excludefile.72 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Backup-Archive Clients: Installation and User's Guide