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Exclude a folder from backup operation
Posted: 26 Aug 2011 06:33
by Ctrl/Alt/Del
I mirrored a certain section of a Windows 7 help site, the tutorial section, and it came out to be a 7GB file. I have it all in one folder and I enjoy having the folder on my computer for offline viewing but, I don't want to back it up.
I have my hard drive partitioned into a few different volumes. For example:
A: is for technical files and reference material and things like that.
B: is for music and videos, etc...
I regularly backup all of A drive and all of B drive to flash drives. I have the 7GB folder nested within A: drive in a folder called technical.
If I back up A:, as normal, it will try to include the 7GB folder. How can I exclude this one particular folder from a backup?
Thanks.
Re: Exclude a folder from backup operation
Posted: 27 Aug 2011 04:48
by acheton
Good suggestion, I think it would be helpful to have an exclusion list which applies to backup operations.
Re: Exclude a folder from backup operation
Posted: 31 Aug 2011 13:24
by admin
One could do sth similar to the Custom Copy Blacklist, but with a list of sources instead of targets.
Or use scripting backupto and add a parameter "exclude" or so.
But it's currently not so high on my list.
Re: Exclude a folder from backup operation
Posted: 31 Aug 2011 16:32
by acheton
admin wrote:But it's currently not so high on my list.
Fair enough
Re: Exclude a folder from backup operation
Posted: 07 Jul 2022 12:15
by RalphM
Sorry to revive this thread after 11 years.
Still not high enough on the list?
Re: Exclude a folder from backup operation
Posted: 15 Jul 2022 08:34
by admin
Not that high.
Can you give a convincing example of its utmost importance?
Re: Exclude a folder from backup operation
Posted: 15 Jul 2022 11:03
by RalphM
If I backup my "C:\Data" directory to my NAS, it includes a subdirectory which is a symbolic link to a directory already stored on the NAS.
I moved my iPhone iTunes backups to the NAS a while ago because they used up way too much space on the laptop and replaced the directory on the laptop with a symlink to the NAS, so iTunes still behaves as normal.
So in the above described backup, I backup several GB of data (10000's of small files) to my NAS where they already exist just in a different location.
By being able to exclude such symlink folder I could avoid duplicating that data and speed up the backup significantly.
Re: Exclude a folder from backup operation
Posted: 15 Jul 2022 11:18
by admin
Are you aware of the
filter parameter in backupto and sync?
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backupto [location], [source], [on_collision], [preserve_dates], [create_log], [pop_stats], [skip_junctions], [verify], [show_progress], [filter]
sync source, target, [copy_items], [on_collision], [delete_items], [switches], [logfile], [filter]
Re: Exclude a folder from backup operation
Posted: 15 Jul 2022 22:54
by RalphM
No, I wasn't until now.
I'll look into it and try to solve my problem that way.
Thanks for the hint.
