I use a lot of includes and exclude, but I must state that I have no experience in backing up AIX oracle with Avamar.

I have only been using Avamar to back up Windows File systems, MS SQL, MS Exchange, MS Sharepoint.

*.[extension] works for me, but be weary where you start creating your exclusions.

exampe:

I have a windows system with a C and D drive. There is a "group" folder and a "home" folder under the root of D.

D:\Group\

D:\Home\

If I wanted to exclude DAT files from the "Group" Folder backup, I would do the following:

Source Data = D:\Group\

Inclusions = D:\Group\

Exclusions = *.DAT

BUT if I wanted to backup just the DAT files from "Group" folder, I would do the following:

Source Data = D:\Group\

Inclusions = *.DAT

Exclusions = D:\Group\

I came about this by trial and error and time spent when I had set up my backup data sets.

Hope this helps.

If I do the following (as a last ditch effort):

OS: Windows 2003

Avamar: 5.x

Source: F:/

Exclude: F:/

Include: *.bak

Avamar still picks up *.safe files.

Hints? Clues?

CDKotran

Yes I agree the documentation is very poor at best in this area. 

I don't want excludes to be done on the client, one loses control that

way.

How does one exclude any drive? is it *:\ or **\ or what?

Hello,

You can also use avtar.cmd file. I hope this will be useful for you -

To skip Drive/Folder/Files on windows system –

1. Create avtar.cmd file under C:\Program files\avs\var location on client.
2. To skip a whole drive, add following entry in avtar.cmd file –
   • --exclude=D:\**
3. To skip a whole folder, add following entry in avtar.cmd file –
   • --exclude=C:\Users\**
4. To skip a folder which name contains space, add following entry in avtar.cmd file –
   • --exclude=”C:\Program Files”
5. To skip a file with specific extension within a folder and all subfolders, add  following entry in avtar.cmd file –
   • --exclude=C:\Windows\debug\**.log
6. To skip a file with specific extension within a folder without skipping in subfolders, add following entry in avtar.cmd file –
   • --exclude= C:\Windows\Globalization\*.nlt
7. To skip a specific file within all drives, add following entry in avtar.cmd file –
   • --exclude=*\filename
8. To add anything as a comment, use following syntax –
   • # This drive is excluded as per ticket ABC1234

Regards,

Pawan

That doesn't show me how to use wild cards ...

When we use avtar.cmd file on client to exclude any file or folder, it does not affect any other client. On other hand, if we exclude files using a dataset, other clients using that dataset can be affected. Please be careful when you use dataset to exclude files or folders.

I have already mentioned how to exclude drive using avtar.cmd in my last post. For doing same task using dataset -

1. Go to Tools > Manage Dataset

2. Select dataset which you want to modify and click exclusion tab.

3. Select plugin type and browse for files which you want to exclude.

4.Click on + sign to add file/folder to exclusion list.

Regards,

Pawan

my 2cents

to exclude in a specific dir

--exclude=/u10/oradata/mydb/*.dbf

for any place with in a dir (meaning any place below the top dir)

--exclude=/u10/**/*.dbf

that double /**/  is supposed to mean in ANY DIR that matches this path  - so if you had a 3 dbf's in different dirs. under /u10/  it would exclude those dbf's no matter where they are (I have verified this)

I have not tried but I figure this might work

--exclude=/**/*.dbf

I put mine on the server because the same policy is used to back all AIX servers, and adding too much to the dataset exclude causes overhead if I add one thing for serverA then something Different for serverB  then C  then D.

to me you end up with a bunch of overhead for excludes on servers that don't need it.  And when you retire a server - how many people remember to go look at the excludes in the dataset to see if something was just for 1 server.

but everybody has their own way of thinking.... so your choice...

hope the exclude examples help you.