Readynas Backups and snapsots

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capaz wrote:

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jak0lantash wrote:

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Arnav wrote:

The auto backup only allows you to select one folder to backup.  You can't pick a folder within the tree of folders not to backup.

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Is "auto backup" something specific?

Because I'm able to select a subfolder with no difficulty from the "new backup job" wizard:

I assumed that he meant, for example, that you can't multi-select, i.e., at a given level, select all folders *except* the one(s) you want to avoid.  In your screenshot, suppose, instead of folder, there were folder1, folder2, and folder3.  If you wanted to skip folder2, you couldn't multi-select folder1 and folder3.

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Mmmm OK. He said "a folder", but if that's what he meants, then indeed, you can't do that directly. Either you create several backup jobs (one per subfolder) or you use rsync backup job with exclusions (which can be tricky because your exclude by name, not path, so an object further down the tree may match the exclusion too).