AIX directive not working

[jciarlette]

I am trying to skip a filesystem called "epic" and everything beneath it. For my directive I have:

<< / >>
+skip: epic


I still see the epic and everything underneath being backed up.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[denisfr]

Hello,

did you check the size of the 'epic' saveset ?
Sometimes, NW saves only names of files and directories but not the content...

Denis

 

[605]

The syntax seems to be fine - except for the first (empty line).
Before you create a new directive you better copy an existing one and modify it.

You might also want to consider local directives.

 

[a060463xyz]

if epic is a filesystem,
the syntax for the directive should be

<</epic >>
+ skip: .?* *

Good luck

 

[a060463xyz]

correction :
<< /epic >>
+skip: .?* *

 

[jciarlette]

I have tried all suggestions to no avail. One thing I need to add is epic is a sub-folder of a root folder. Does that make a difference with the syntax?

 

[a060463xyz]

absolutely !!!

in this case the sysntax has to be :

<</subfolder_name/epic >>
+ skip: .?* *

A directive has to have a scope, normaly the whole path of the directory where it should applied to.

Wildcards are not allowed !
<< /*/epic >> is not workink !

good luck