HP NonStop G-Series User Manual

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Command Interpreter

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ALTER SYNCFILESET

exclude-file

an edit file that contains names of the files, subvolumes or disk volumes in
the syncfileset that are to be excluded from the synchronization. An
exclude file can be shared among syncfilesets. When starting a new
synchronization ASYSYNC rereads the exclude list if the exclude file has
been updated.

Each entry must be on a separate line. If a line starts either with the word
"COMMENT" or double hyphens (--) the line will be treated as a comment
and will be ignored.

If a system is specified, it must be the local system; exclusion pertains only
to source files, not destination files.

If the PURGE option is specified, a file on the exclude list is not purged on
the destination system, even if other files in the same source subvolume
are synchronized.

Note that some performance degradation could occur if an exclude file
containing a long list of files is shared by multiple syncfilesets.

The exclude file supports all legal disk file patterns. Refer to the NonStop
documentation for legal disk file patterns

Guardian file sets:

The exclude file supports all legal disk file patterns.

OSS file sets:

Entries in the exclude-file can specify a pattern but the file and directory
names must be fully qualified with absolute pathnames.

Note the following case for the exclusion of a directory:

exclude-file entry: /home/group/user/destdir/A/KA (without last "/")

does not exclude directory: /home/group/user/destdir/A/KA/

while exclude-file entry: /home/group/user/destdir/A/KA*

or /home/group/user/destdir/A/KA/

excludes directory: /home/group/user/destdir/A/KA/