Hi all,
What is the correct way to exclude a directory on Windows in an Exclude
section?
I just found out that neither of these works, the directory is always
included.
It seems to work as expected for files, but not for directories (slash at
the end).
exclude {
file = "System Volume Information/"
file = System Volume Information/
file = "System\ Volume\ Information/"
file = "C:/System\ Volume\ Information/"
file = "C:/System\ Volume\ Information/"
}
But this works, is that the only way?
include {
options {
exclude = yes
wilddir = "*:/System Volume Information"
}
File = ....
}
To my shame I must admit that I've been backing up older Windows versions
(Server 2003, XP, WIndows 7 etc.) for 3 years using the first variation
above, without noticing that the directory was included.
It's only after a Windows 10 PC was added a week ago that I started
noticing something off. Incremental backups of 20 GB per day, every day,
even when the system had been powered off all day and was just powered on
by Wake-On-Lan at night to back it up, didn't seem quite normal. The
culprit was a file "D:\Documents and Settings\{guid}" of 18 GB that
changed every day.
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