Your first method should work if you do an incremental backup. It won't work for a full backup. But then you skip any files which haven't been modified since the last backup, so you'll still need the full backup at least once.
Your second method doesn't work by design. NTBackup is supposed to back up everything regardless of rights, the owner of the files has the reasonable expectation that their files will be saved during backups, even if the administrator doesn't have the rights to those files. -----Original Message----- From: John P. Hoekstra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:30 AM To: MSWinNT Discussions Subject: Skipping files using ntbackup We are a software developer and use a directory tree for temporary testing of installs and customer configurations. The space used by this varies from a few MB to several GB, depending on what we are working on. I don't see any reason to back up this data in our normal rotation because it is completely reproducible and when it is GBs it adds significant time to the backup. So I would like to skip this entire directory tree when we use ntbackup. We invoke ntbackup from .BAT files and backup the entire disk that contains this tree. My first try was to remove the archive attribute from all of the files. This didn't seem to work. My second try was to remove administrator access by making the directories and files owned by a username and setting the security to access only by our developers group. NTBACKUP still finds the directories and backs everything up. Any ideas? John Hoekstra ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
