I have a list of things I need to exclude or include in various datasets in our environment, and the Avarmar Administration manual has no examples on how to exclude, or what is the heirarchy of includes and excludes.  What wildcards work in what situations?  And how do I wildcard directories, so it skips some directories, but not others?

Here are some exacmples.  On our AIX Oracle database servers, I want to exclude all *.dbf files, in all directories.   Which syntax would work:

/*/*.dbf

*.dbf

*/*.dbf

I have the same issue with Cache database files.  On some datasets, I want to exclude all CACHE.DAT files, so which of these would work?

/*/CACHE.DAT

*/CACHE.DAT

CACHE.DAT

But, I have other datasets where I want to exclude everything, UNLESS it is a CACHE.DAT file, and then I want to back up ALL of those.  So, how do I set a rule to exclude everything, do I just use one of these?