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Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

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Using wildcards in directive statements

NetWorker supports wildcards in directive statements.

In a directive statement, you can use wildcard characters in both the directory and path list specifications.

The following table describes the supported wildcard characters and their descriptions.

Table 1. Supported wildcards in directives
Wildcard Name Description
* Asterisk Matches any sequence of characters.
? Question mark Matches any single character.
[ and ] Square brackets Forms an expression. Represents any of the characters enclosed within the square brackets. For example, the following directory specification includes all user folders beginning with A or D:

<< */*/users/[AD]*/tmp/ >>

You can use exclamation marks and hyphens within expressions.

! Exclamation Must be used directly after the opening square bracket in an expression, for example, [!...]. Matches any single character except for the characters typed after the !. For example, to match any single character except a, b, and c, type:

[!abc]

- Hyphen When a hyphen is used between two characters within square brackets, it indicates a range inclusive of those two characters. For example, the following directory specification includes all user folders beginning with A, B, C, or D:

<< */*/users/[A-D]*/tmp/ >>

NOTE: Wildcards directives are applied only by the save process in the scheduled backup workflow. When you skip unwanted mount points using directory specification wildcard directives with the save set keyword All, save processes still run for the unwanted mount points. However, the save processes only log messages that the contents of the mount points were skipped. For example: << */TestFileSystem[5-9]?/ >> +skip: *.

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