The backup script already supports wildcard file names to easily specify a set of files to be backed up. A frequent situation is having a directory of many files and wanting to exclude several files from a backup. For example, some files are transient in nature and are frequently re-created with no need to be included in a backup. It was requested if this ability could be easier managed with file exclusion capability.
V11.9 and later now provides!EXCLUDE_FILES. This option excludes files from the backup that match wildcard specifications.
Example
Back up all files matching *.dat and *.idx except for files that match test.*.
Reminder: !FILES and !EXCLUDE_FILES must go on a line all by themselves
!DUMP backup.fcb
!EXCLUDE_FILES
test.*
!FILES
*.dat
!END