Filter basics

Filters allow you to include or exclude files and directories from your backup or restore jobs. For example, you could create a filter to exclude all files that were backed up before a certain date. You could also filter a job to exclude files from a particular directory. Use the filters to help focus on the files you want.

For backup jobs, filtering is performed on a per host basis, meaning you can include a directory from one host, and exclude the same directory from another host. This makes it easy for you to create a job that best suits your needs, one that contains only the data that you want.

One thing you should be aware of is that exclusions will always take precedence over inclusions. For example, if in the File Pattern filter you select to include only files that have a .doc extension, and in the Directory Pattern filter you select to exclude your /work directory, all .doc files in the /work directory will be excluded.

Specifying to ``Include'' files will result in a backup or restore containing only those files which satisfy the filter specifications. For example, suppose in the source area you selected to back up your entire local hard drive, and you then set up a Directory Pattern filter to include files in the /bin directory. The result would be that SCO ARCserve/Open would only back up files from your /bin directory. No other files would be backed up.

If you don't specify any filters for a job, SCO ARCserve/Open will include all files that are on the selected source.

You have the option of including and excluding files based on the following criteria:


Below is a brief description of the filters that you can use:


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