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The following example reduce the number of existing jobs from four to two:
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Server 1 |
Server 2 |
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Drive D |
Drive E |
Drive D |
Drive F |
Old Jobs |
Job 1 |
D:\General |
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D:\General |
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Job 2 |
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E:\Common |
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F:\Common |
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Job 3 |
D:\Projects |
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D:\Projects |
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Job 4 |
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E:\Documents |
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F:\Documents |
After consolidation:
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Filter Option 1 |
Filter Option 2 |
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Server 1 |
Server 2 |
INCLUDE |
EXCLUDE |
New Jobs |
Job 1 |
D:\ |
D:\ |
\General\* |
All other files |
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\Projects\* |
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Job 2 |
E:\ |
F:\ |
\Common\* |
All other files |
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\Documents\* |
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Jobs 1 and 3 were merged into a single job watching the root D drive on both servers while using Filter Option 1 or 2.
Jobs 2 and 4 were merged into a single job watching the root E drive on Server 1 and the root F drive on Server 2 while using Filter Option 1 or 2.
Please note the following regarding regular expressions:
•Peer Management Center does not support the ability to use Regular Expressions for multi-level folder inclusions such as \Level1\Level2\FolderName.
•Peer Management Center does not currently support the ability to filter on certain parts of a path, like \Folder\*\Folder and \Folder*\.
To exclude a specific folder from anywhere within the watch set:
*\FolderName
*\FolderName\FolderName
To exclude a specific folder from the ROOT of the watch set:
\FolderName
\FolderName\FolderName
To exclude folders that END with a specific name from anywhere within the watch set:
*FolderName\
To include a specific folder from the ROOT of the watch set:
\FolderName
\FolderName\FolderName