SQL Agents - Does the filesystem agent automatically filter out MDF, LDF, and NDF?

Hi Commvault People,

I am in the process of reworking our legacy filtering and exclusion settings.

One thing which would be very beneficial is for the OS Filesystem agent to automatically exclude the database components from Filesystem backup, since we have the application agent already protecting the data.

I then noticed this thread from this very forum which alluded to this being implemented in one of many possible service packs:-

However, it had different contributions from differing Commvaulters and was left a little open-ended.

So I would like to ask the question again.

If you have a SQL ida, and a Filesystem ida, is the Filesystem ida supposed to automatically exclude the database structures from backup?  Can I also throw Oracle into the mix here?

From a backup config perspective this would be a big win, as I am currently looking at ways of implementing a scenario where a SQL or Oracle agent has its corresponding database components excluded. However, I can’t see a way of easily doing this. I was hoping that somewhere in the Control Panel-Global Filters it would let me add a group (and the group would be SQL Agents installs etc) but I can't see the ability to do that.

So in summary, two questions for the community:-

1 -Does anyone know the status of auto-exclusion for database files if an app agent is already installed?

2 - If the above is not working, is there a way to provide exclusions against a group?

Thanks