Setting Exclusion Patterns

The following are guidelines for setting exclusion patterns:

• In the Exclusion Pattern field, enter a file path and file name including the file extension. The exclusion pattern should use a full path starting at the volume level.

• Begin all file paths with the directory separator. For UNIX or Linux backups, the directory separator must be the slash (/). For Windows, the directory separator must be the backslash (\).

• To exclude more than one file, use ? as a single-character wild card and * as a multiple-character wild card.

• As described in the sections above, you can enter multiple patterns and apply them to a single exclusion rule.

The following are exclusion pattern examples for backups of Windows nodes:

Backup Selection	Files to Exclude	Exclusion Pattern
C:\Sales	All files named report.txt in Sales folder or subfolders	\*\report.txt
C:\Sales	All files named report.txt in subfolders of Sales folder	\*\*\report.txt
C:\Sales	All files of a certain type (for example, .txt) in Sales folder or subfolders	\*\*.txt
C:\Sales	All files in Sales folder or subfolders with an extension starting with h, followed by any character and then a p	\*\*.h?p
C:\Sales\East	All .txt files in East folder or subfolders	\*\*\*.txt