Whoa.. I'll definitely exclude the pagefile.sys and c:\windows. Good tip.
Is there truly no way to restore a windows client though? I mean, it's not
the end of the world because Windows needs a fresh install every so often
anyway, but if you really needed to surely there would be a way to do it.
What if one used an ntbackup to backup the 'windows system state' and keep
it locally in a flat file on the client.. Then back up this flat file with
the rest of the backuppc backup.....
I like your idea to omit program files except sometimes people tend to save
data files with the programs. I know I keep everything in my documents...
But on my wife's laptop, who knows where things could be!
"dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>since you will not be able to restore a windows system from the backuppc
>backups then i would suggest the following folders to exclude
>
>c:program files
>c:windows
>c:temp
>
>also exclude the file
>
>c:pagefile.sys (this is your swap file, no point in backup it up. probably
>over a gig!)
>
>***
>
>i would suggest you not even try to backup the C: but instead backup
>"Documents and Settings" and any special directories off of c:. i do
>c:documents and settings and c:downloads and c:scripts. i run some bash
>scripts via cygwin on a few machines. I ONLY put the 'docs and settings'
>in the default config file and add the other folders in the individual
>config files so i dont get the errors for missing shares on a bunch of
>machines without a downloads or a scripts share.<blockquote
>class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);
>margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> Is there a list of
>recomanded windows folders to exclude
>> in order to get a successful full backup??
>
>I don't use Windoze, so I don't know. There have been suggestions on the
>list previously.
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