I've had to do what you did with the Windows policies. Unfortunately, Unix has much better pattern matching than Windows, so you are stuck with the way you mentioned.
Includes and excludes are in the registry on Windows. You could still accomplish your goal by creating a .reg file to import your changes, but unless you are making a lot of these policies continuously, it's probably quicker just to manually create them. You can copy/paste the first entry and then edit that line each time, or use something like notepad or excel to create the file list and edit to your liking. Once that's done you can copy/paste each line into the policy. It's going to be a pain any way you look at it, but hopefully you aren't going to be changing things once they are setup. One recommendation I have is to create separate policies for each group of files instead of a single policy with multiple streams. If one of the streams fails, you or the monitoring admins have to restart the job which in turn starts all the streams. The streams that did not fail have to be manually killed creating false failures. Hope this helps, Rusty -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 10:29 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU pattern matching Hi all, NBU5.0mp3 on Solaris 9. I'm having a difficult time setting up a Policy using pattern matching so that I can chop up large file systems into multiple streams. Specifically, I am trying to use [a-zA-Z] pattern matching arguments against a Windows machine, but can't seem to make it work properly. I have been successful using C:\a*, C:\b*, etc..., but would prefer not to create 36 entries in the backup selections. Another I that I thought might work is to populate the Include list programmatically, via an LS or DIR? Does anyone know where that file resides on a Windows box? Thanks in advance, Bob _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu