[Info-vax] BACKUP/IMAGE/EXCLUDE...?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <gr2171$nfh$1 at news.belwue.de>, gartmann at nonsense.immunbio.mpg.de (Christoph Gartmann) writes:
> In article <24cd2c91-4e09-404b-96f3-4b98921baaf1 at g19g2000yql.googlegroups.com>, AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> [...]
>>    Because all files on the input volume are processed, you cannot
>>use input file-selection qualifiers in image copy or save operations.
>>You can, however, restore files and directories selectively from an
>>image save set.
> 
> Ok, then I'll describe the reason behind my question. I have a disk that
> is backuped via BACKUP/IMAGE... in a genereal routine/cycle with all the
> other disks, at repeating intervals, etc. . Next, there is an application that
> produces huge files on this disk. These files are backuped separately and
> deleted after they have been saved to tape (BACKUP/DELETE). The files appear
> somewhat arbitrary and disappear. Now the regular backup of the disk shouldn't
> copy these arbitrary files that are all in a separate directory. So I thought
> /EXCLUDE=this_directory could achieve just that. Now that it does not, what
> else is possible?

   1) don't use image backup, but that means possible loss of meta-data on 
      the volume

   2) set the files /nobackup, do the image, then set the files /backup
      before the separate backup

   3) set the files /nobackup, then /ignore=nobackup on the separate
      backup