Legato Directives for skipping generic filesystems

[emcaixlegato]

Problem: Need to skip many filesystems with similar, but different, naming structure. Don't want to make 2 million directives to do this. Here is the structure:

/oracle/SID/sapdataNNN

where SID=SAP SID and NNN=any number from 1-999

So, all of the following are valid:

/oracle/SBX/sapdata100
/oracle/DEV/sapdata200
/oracle/PRD/sapdata500

So, how do you create a generic directive to skip all of these? Ideally, it would be:

<< / >>
+null: /oracle/???/sapdata???
OR

<< / >>
+null: /oracle/*/sapdata*

OR

<< / >>
+null: *sapdata*

, etc., etc. Does anyone know how to make this work?

 

[Chacalinc]

you answered for yourself! what's the problem? the directive make sense and should work... create a new directive, copy fron another (example: unix directive with compression) and add the posted directive. Then assign it to the client resource.

<< /oracle >>
+skip: sapdata*

 

[emcaixlegato]

That is the first one that I tried! The only thing that has worked so far is to hardcode the filesystem, i.e.

<< /oracle/SBX/sapdata100 >>
+skip: .

This works fine. But, any attempt to shorten that using wildcards does not work. I have tried all of the following:

<< /oracle >>

+skip: sapdata*
+skip: *sapdata*
+skip: /oracle/*/sapdata*
+skip: .*sapdata.*

I even tried:

<< /oracle/SBX >>

+skip: sapdata*

etc.

 

[Chacalinc]

this could be stupid, but did you try with

<< /oracle >>
+skip: sapdata*.*

?

another try is to put under /oracle/XXX folders the file

.nsr

with the following IN the file:

skip: sapdata*.*

(page 200 UX Admin guide)

Cheers.

 

[emcaixlegato]

Thanks for all who replied. It is impossible to do without putting .nsr files in all filesystems/directories that you do not want backed up. You can not create generic global directives.