Use of the /EXCLUDE qualifier for the BACKUP command.

[Andrew Moody_1]

What I need to know is to correct syntax for the following issue. Current we exclude a specific directory thus

/EXCLUDE=( [ORACLEV7.XEPS...]*.*) -

I now wish to exclude an additional directory structure ORACLEV7.P014 do I achieve this with a second line as above

/EXCLUDE=( [ORACLEV7.XEPS...]*.*) -
/EXCLUDE=( [ORACLEV7.P014...]*.*) -

or by including both directories within the original parentheses

/EXCLUDE= ( [ORACLEV7.XEPS...]*.*,[ORACLEV7.P014...]*.* ) -

In that sort of fashion?

Finally if it's just one use of the /EXCLUDE qualifier, as in the second example, what is the correct separator & syntax to use?

Thanks

[Bojan Nemec · Accepted solution]

Andrew,

The second form is correct. You use a comma as separator. For the informations you can do:

$ HELP BACKUP /EXCLUDE

Bojan

[Bojan Nemec]

Andrew,

Sorry, I should point you also to the documentation:

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/82FINAL/6048/6048pro_021.html#startsubcommand_122

there is also an example.

I see that you are new to this forum so:

Velcome to the VMS forum.


Bojan

[Andrew Moody_1]

Thanks Bojan

I just found the HELP topic on this unusally vague.

Many thanks for your time.

Andrew.

[Jan van den Ende]

Andrew,

the second syntax for /EXCLUDE in itself is sufficient, but please realise, that for most commands if you need to specify ALL files, that you must specify *.*;*.

VMS can hold multiple versions of a file, and the specification xxxx.* means ONLY the highest version.
You can address specific versions with xxxx.yyy; , and you can address relatively, addressing the previous version by xxxx.yyy;-1
There even is a special way to address the LOWEST existing version number: xxxx.yyy;-0

hth,

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Jan,

If you remove the *.* or *.*.* it also works.
It doesn't need that info, only the directory is enough.

Wim

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

What I always found strange is that the device can not be specified.

backup dsk1:[000000...],dsk2:[000000...]/excl=([sybase...])

excludes sybase from both disks while I would like to specify that it only applies to dsk2.

Wim

[Doug Phillips]

What I always found strange is that the device can not be specified.

backup dsk1:[000000...],dsk2:[000000...]/excl=([sybase...])

excludes sybase from both disks while I would like to specify that it only applies to dsk2.


Since backup's designers didn't give us a way to restore a save-set to multiple devices I imagine they felt that you should use different save-sets for different disks.

You could rename one of the directories before the backup and rename it afterwards, unless it must remain in use, of course.

[John Gillings]

Andrew,

One thing to be aware of... even with /EXCLUDE, directory files within the excluded tree are still included in the backup.

[Jeroen Hartgers_3]

In the exclude you can not put the device because a backup command is for only 1 device so there nu need for specify the device.

exclude syntax
/exclu=([dir1....],[dir2,dir3]*.log,*.tmp)

[Andrew Moody_1]

Cheers guys, it worked.