This is my first post on here so I apologize out of the gate if I forget to add some information.
We have a group of dba's that used to be responsible for script creation with regards to SQL jobs interacting with NetBackup. Part of their default configuration as doing an exclusion for snapshots; however, now that all management is done in house it appears that those scripts do not actually skip the snapshots. From what I am reading you cannot do an exclude on a type of database if you're running $ALL, but instead have to specify the excluded databases. Is this correct or do we just have the wrong syntax?
I've included the script below.
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OPERATION BACKUP
DATABASE $ALL
EXCLUDE ".snapshot"
EXCLUDE "master"
SQLHOST "sqlhost1"
NBSERVER "masterserver"
MAXTRANSFERSIZE 6
BLOCKSIZE 7
BROWSECLIENT "sqlclient"
DUMPOPTION INCREMENTAL
NUMBUFS 2
BATCHSIZE 12
ENDOPER TRUE
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