Excluding Files; Excluding Files With Specific Extensions - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

Chapter 8: Converting Legacy Installations Using the Repackager Interface
Configuring Exclusions

Excluding Files

You use the Exclusions Editor to create an exclusion list for files so that those files are not captured during the OS
snapshot process, and will not be included in the OS snapshot file.
Task: To add a file to the exclusion list:
1. Launch the Exclusions Editor and open an exclusions file by performing the steps listed in
Exclusions
2. On the Files tab, click New. The File Exclusion Information dialog box opens.
3. Enter or browse to the directory Path containing the file you want to exclude.
4. Enter the name of the file you want to exclude, or browse to it by clicking the Browse (
of the Excluded Files field. If you want to exclude multiple files from the same directory, separate them with
pipes (
5. Click OK to close the File Exclusion Information dialog box. The new exclusion appears in the Files tab.
6. Save the exclusions file as described in
Note • When configuring file exclusions for Repackager, you are only configuring Repackager to automatically
mark the file as excluded; this can be changed from within Repackager on a file-by-file basis. However, when
configuring file exclusions for the OS Snapshot Wizard, files in the exclusion list are not captured in the OS snapshot
file.

Excluding Files with Specific Extensions

To exclude files with specific extensions from the exclusion list, perform the following steps.
Task: To exclude files with specific extensions from the exclusion list:
1. Launch the Exclusions Editor and open an exclusions file by performing the steps listed in
Exclusions
2. On the Files tab, click New. The File Exclusion Information dialog box opens.
3. In the File Exclusion Information dialog box, enter or browse to the directory containing the files you want
to exclude. If you want to exclude files with a certain extension from all directories, enter an asterisk (
Path value.
4. Enter an asterisk followed by the extension you want excluded in the Excluded Files field. For example, if you
want to exclude all
from all directories), separate each exclusion with a pipe (
5. Click OK to close the File Exclusion Information dialog box. The new exclusion appears in the Files tab.
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