Hello Greg

Please look at the following url: note there is a veritas technote about 
this also.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/techref/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/windowsserv/2003/all/techref/en-us/w2k3tr_back_tools.asp

Microsoft has a registry entry that defines files that should not be backed 
up. And netbackup uses this entry, which includes pagefile.sys.

len
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From: "Hindle, Greg" <Greg.Hindle AT constellation DOT com>
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Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Does anyone use file excludes


> Well there are certain files in windows that for the most part do not
> need to be backed up every day. One for example is the windows swap file
> (pagefile.sys). This file changes every day and this would be backed up
> every day. But would not be needed if the server needed a DR recovery.
> Another file would be the windows crash file, typically those that end
> in *.DMP. I was just looking for other "standard" files that could be
> excluded from backups that would not really matter in if a server failed
> and had to have a DR restore done. And I am not really a Unix person so
> any direction there on files that particularly do not need to be backed
> up every day would be helpful.
>
> Greg
>
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> * Hindle, Greg <Greg.Hindle AT constellation DOT com> [2005-01-14 16:53]:
>> Hello,
>> Does anyone use file excludes when they backup a UNIX or windows
> server?
>> For example excluding the paging file 'pagefile.sys' when backing up a
>
>> windows server? A situation came up here where I work and I need to
>> push out a "standard" set of files to exclude on UNIX and windows
> servers.
>
> we use excludes quite a bit, mostly on Windows. A "standard" listing is
> somewhat subjective, though.
>
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