Storix Software SBAdmin User Guide - Manual (Page 70)

12. Exclude Lists
Exclude lists are used to exclude certain files, directories, or devices (such as partitions or logical volumes)
from backup jobs. You may create any number of different exclude lists, and assign one or more exclude lists to
a particular
backup job . You may also select which clients the exclude list will apply to. This allows you to use
an exclude list for a job, but still have it only apply to certain clients if multiple clients are backed up by the
same job.
Note that you may also select certain data to include or exclude on each backup when configuring a backup job
(depending on the backup type ). You can specify, for instance, the filesystems to include on a filesystem
backup (or all filesystems except certain ones). Using an exclude list as described in this section, however, will
provide the ability to exclude specific files or directories within the filesystems.
Exclude lists may be used to exclude files, directories, entire filesystems or device data (such as partitions or
logical volumes) from various backups. Wildcard characters (*) in exclude list entries may also be used to
exclude may files or directories matching a certain pattern.
Device names may also be added to the exclude list. A device name may be an LVM logical volume, meta-disk
(software RAID) device name, or disk partition. The data within the device will only be excluded if it is not used
for a filesystem. To exclude a filesystem, you must exclude the filesystem mount point (directory).
Using Wildcards
If you wish to exclude a directory, all files within the directory as well as any sub directories will also be
excluded. A wildcard (*) may be used in an exclude list entry for files and directories. For instance, having
/usr/local/*.old in the exclude list will exclude all files in the /usr/local directory with a “.old” extension.
Wildcards in the exclude list work the same as at the command line. For example, typing “ls
/usr/local/*.old ” will yield the same list of files that will be excluded if /usr/local/*.old is in the exclude list.
You may specify multiple wildcards in the same string. For example, “/*/local/x*.old” will exclude files starting
with an “x” and ending with “.old” in the /usr/(anydir)/local directory.
You may not use other special characters in exclude list entries, even if they exist in
the names of the files to exclude. Those characters are $, +, ? and ^, which have
special meaning to the system.
Adding an Entry to the Exclude List
Select Configure !Exclude Lists from the menu bar to display the following exclude list screen:
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