Michael Stowe wrote at about 09:16:18 -0500 on Thursday, September 3, 2009:
 > 
 > Over time, I've accumulated the following set of excludes for use for
 > backing up Windows machines, which applies to all Windows machines on the
 > network.  So the open question is, are there other things that it would
 > make sense to universally exclude?  (Exclude syntax is for rsync.)
 > 
 >   '*' => [
 >     '/BackupPC/diagnostic.txt',
 >     '/BackupPC/vss-setvar.cmd',
I don't have such files in my implementation. What are they?

 >     '/Documents and Settings/*/Application Data/AOL/TopSpeed',
No AOL spam/crap on my computer - probably not a general case for
a lot of people who are smart enough to use BackupPC ;)

 >     '/Documents and Settings/*/Application Data/Microsoft/Search/Data',
What is this folder? I don't see it in my XP installations.

 >     '/System Volume Information',

To be cautious, I have just been excluding:
   '/System Volume Information/catalog.wci/*'
which appears to be the web & document indexing portion and is the
portion that changes the most. Is it 'safe' to exclude the other parts
of System Volume Information if you want to do as clean a restore as possible?

 >     '/Windows/Prefetch',
I haven't been excluding this - what does it do?

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