Michael Stowe wrote at about 09:16:18 -0500 on Thursday, September 3, 2009: > > Over time, I've accumulated the following set of excludes for use for > backing up Windows machines, which applies to all Windows machines on the > network. So the open question is, are there other things that it would > make sense to universally exclude? (Exclude syntax is for rsync.) > > '*' => [ > '/BackupPC/diagnostic.txt', > '/BackupPC/vss-setvar.cmd', I don't have such files in my implementation. What are they?
> '/Documents and Settings/*/Application Data/AOL/TopSpeed', No AOL spam/crap on my computer - probably not a general case for a lot of people who are smart enough to use BackupPC ;) > '/Documents and Settings/*/Application Data/Microsoft/Search/Data', What is this folder? I don't see it in my XP installations. > '/System Volume Information', To be cautious, I have just been excluding: '/System Volume Information/catalog.wci/*' which appears to be the web & document indexing portion and is the portion that changes the most. Is it 'safe' to exclude the other parts of System Volume Information if you want to do as clean a restore as possible? > '/Windows/Prefetch', I haven't been excluding this - what does it do? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
