Traversing Excluded Directories

If the exclude list for a client indicates a directory for exclusion, but the client uses an include list to override the exclude list, NetBackup will traverse the excluded directories if necessary, in order to satisfy the client's include list.

Assume the following settings for a Windows client named silk:

• The backup policy backup selection list for silk indicates ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES. When a scheduled backup runs, the entire client is backed up.
  The entire client would also be backed up if the backup selection list consisted of only:
  /
• The exclude list on the client consists of only:
  *
  This indicates that all files will be excluded from the backup.
• However, since the include list on Windows client silk includes the following file:

   C:\WINNT

the excluded directories are traversed in order to back up C:\WINNT.

If the include list did not contain any entry, no directories would be traversed.

In another example, assume the following settings for a UNIX client named hagar:

• The backup selection list for client hagar consists of the following: /
• The exclude list for UNIX client hagar consists of the following: /
• UNIX client hagar's include list consists of the following directories:

   /data1
   /data2
   /data3

In both examples, because the include list specifies full paths and the exclude list excludes everything, NetBackup will replace the backup selection list with the client's include list.