Creating and applying excludes to a backup job.

[jrdrukin]

You're all probably going to laugh, but...

I have spent hours attempting to do a simple task that seems to confound me at every corner...

We are using BE 8.6 on a Dell Power Vault 110T LTO with 100/200GB tapes.

The system is working fine. I can create a selection set, save the job, and run the job successfully, but I can't seem to figure out how to apply the excludes.

I would just like to exclude some files from my backup jobs!

I've tried everything that my simple brain (I'm just a draftsman, not an IT/IS person).

I am hoping (praying actually) that someone here may be able to provide a step-by-step outline for excluding files from a backup job.

I've been through all the help files, the printed manual and most of this forum.

I would greatly appreciate any help!

Thanks in advance.

 

[Lou0686]

Hi,

I hope this is good enough details.

1. Go to the Job Definition tab
2. Right click on the job and choose Properties
3. Go to the Selection tab
4. Drill down to your source volume/drive/or folder
5. Right click on the source and choose Advanced File Selection.
6. In this screen, you can specify the following:
a. path (should already be there)
b. the file (wild cards allowwed) *.log
c. select the Exclude radio button
6 Click OK.
7. Choose Text Version for a better view of the result.

Good luck
Lou

 

[jrdrukin]

Thank you!

I really appreciate the help!