CobianSoft

Luis, thank you for responding. Will E:\*\*.rst work to find any depth of subdirectory and exclude those .rsts? Or just one level deeper?

It hope would be that it would exclude all these:
E:\fun.rst
E:\neat\thing.rst
E:\neat\cool\swell\test\extra.rst

I am backing up both my D:\ and E:\ drives but I am trying to exclude *.rst files from the E:\ drive only. I used a file mask "E:\*.rst" but the .rst files are all still being backed up from both drives. Any ideas? The estimate in the Task List shows 2.82 TB but then the actual backup is 4.75 TB bec...