Source:Creating Exclude List

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Overview

For each backup you can back up only files that match a specific pattern and exclude specific files, file types or directories from backups.

Some files are only temporary while others are permanently in use. These files should be either excluded from the ordinary backup or be backed up in a special way. For example, you may not want to back up any temporary (.tmp) files, read-only files, or files from specific directories (e.g., download directory). SEP sesam provides a number of ways for setting up exclusion:

Simple Exclude List in backup task wizard

Add files, file types or regular expressions (regex) to Exclude List when creating a backup task.

Excludes specified as a separate file on client

Create a custom exclude list on the SEP sesam Client (SBC SLI) to exclude a larger number of files.

Permanently marking the directory for exclusion

Create a special file nosbc in the directory itself.

Add files, file types or regular expressions in the Exclude List Editor

When creating a backup task, you specify the source for your backup as well as define any files or patterns you want to exclude from backup.

1. From Main Selection -> Tasks -> By clients, select your client and click New backup task. The New backup task window opens.
2. Enter the Task name.
3. From the Backup type drop-down list, select appropriate backup type.
4. Specify the Source. If you want to back up individual files, you can either browse for directories and files that you want to include in the backup or enter their names followed by a comma (C:/Program Files/SEPsesam/var/db,C:\Users\AA\Documents\references). If you want to backup the whole file system, set the source as all. If you want to back up only files that match a specific pattern, use the include list instead.
5. In the Exclude List Editor, specify the exclusions by using regular expressions. Add the exclusion patterns on by one followed by a comma. For example, if you want to back up source /usr but skip *.tmp and old*.c files and all old* directories, add the following pattern to the editor:
\.tmp$, /old.*\.c$, /old.*/$

	Note
	Exclude by using regular expressions is the default setting, but you can change it to use the file pattern (?,*) instead of regex by modifying the configuration file <SESAM_VAR>/var/ini/sm.ini on the SEP sesam Client. In the config file sm.ini change the entry EXCLUDE_MATCH= REGEXP to EXCLUDE_MATCH= PATTERN .

Create a custom exclude list on client

You can specify a custom exclude list of items to be skipped during backup by creating a special file on SEP sesam Client.

See also

Exclude with file patterns – Exclude with regular expressions – How can I set the SBC so that the exclude list always uses the file pattern instead of using regular expressions? – How to exclude specific VSS writers from a backup? – Exclude a directory from a backup – Default exclude list - Specify longer exclude lists - Exclude a large number of files for backup in Linux - Exclude a large number of files for backup in Windows