Creating an Include List on a UNIX Client

To add back in files that you eliminate with the exclude list, create a /usr/openv/netbackup/include_list file. The same syntax rules apply as explained previously for the exclude list.

To illustrate the use of an include list, we use the example from the previous discussion. The exclude list in that example causes NetBackup to omit all files or directories named test from all directories beneath /home/*/test.

In this case, add back in a file named /home/jdoe/test by creating a /usr/openv/netbackup/include_list file on the client and adding the following to it:

To create an include list for a specific policy or policy and schedule combination, use a .policyname or .policyname.schedulename suffix. The following are two examples of include list names for a policy named wkstations that contains a schedule named fulls.

The first file affects all scheduled backups in the policy named workstations. The second file affects backups only when the schedule is named fulls.

For a given backup, NetBackup uses only one include list and that is the one with the most specific name. For example, assume there are files such as the following:

include_list.workstations and include_list.workstations.fulls

In such a case, NetBackup uses only the following: