You must use special escape characters when including or excluding files and directories that contain wildcard characters.
Tivoli® Storage Manager treats wildcard characters in different ways on different platforms.
The names of directories and files can contain different symbols. The types of symbols that are allowed depend on the operating system.
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To specify files and directories in include and exclude statements, you must use the escape character "\" to specify the wildcards. However, the escape character can only be used inside the character classes "[]".
The following examples illustrate how to specify files and directories that contain wildcard characters using the escape character and character classes in include-exclude statements.
exclude.dir "/usr1/[\[]dir2[\]]"
exclude "/usr1/fi[\*]le1"
exclude.dir "C:\[\[]dir2[\]]"
exclude.dir "C:\file[\[].txt"