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How to exclude a Windows folder in ReadyNAS backup
I am using ReadyNAS backup to pull a backup from a Windows 10 pc. The backup job is using protocol remote: Windows (Archive Bit). There is a hidden Windows folder named 'System Volume Information...
I am trying to keep all of my backup jobs together in one location for ease of use/maintenance. Setting up a separate backup program/system for this one PC is not something I want to do if it can be avoided.
What I am tring to back up is the D: drive. The Windows PC has a 500gb ssd boot drive and a 1.5tb hdd for data storage. This is my Wife's PC and she is not a 'computer person' (so she tells me, often) and as such, her data storage is not well organized. I was trying to setup the backup job to grab everything from the D: drive just in case. The backup seems to do that, including creating the 'System Volume Information' folder on the backup destination, but then the backup ends with an error since the contents of the folder cannot be copied and/or validated.
MCEComputers wrote:
What I am tring to back up is the D: drive.
One option is to create a "master" folder on the drive, and then move all the other folders with data into it (so they will be subfolders). Then share that folder, and modify the NAS backup job to use that folder as the remote source.
Not much else you can do w/o the ability to exclude the system volume information folder.
You're right, I may have to create a folder to hold all of the relevant data.
Have been trying to avoid moving SWMBO's files around. I moved all of her data from the PC to a share on a NAS a while back. She complained that she couldn't find anything and eventually moved it back rather than searching it out. She is not big on change.
If I could get her off of Windoze and on to Linux my life would be so much less interesting. Wouldn't that be nice?
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