When exclude lists using wildcards are used on NetBackup 7.0 clients on UNIX/Linux, extra files and directories may be incorrectly excluded from a backup.

ALL NETBACKUP 7.0 UNIX/LINUX CLIENTS utilizing exclude lists which include "*" wildcards

A quick summary of the issue(s) covered in this Alert:

If your include list entry contains the asterisk wildcard, the entry may unintentionally match - and exclude - files which only match a substring of that entry.  For example, a common exclusion is *.dbf - but due to this issue, that entry not only matches files ending in .dbf, but also files ending in .db, .d or even a single period (.) - this can lead to a lot of files and/or directories getting excluded which the customer is expecting to be able to restore!

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