>  >     '/BackupPC/diagnostic.txt',
>  >     '/BackupPC/vss-setvar.cmd',
> I don't have such files in my implementation. What are they?

They're from the winexe-VSS implementation.

>  >     '/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 ;)

Probably not a general case, but it is a cache, like any other.  No need
to bash it.

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

It's the search indexing service, which scans through and updates its
database.

>  >     '/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?

Yes, System Volume Information is only used to "go back" to a previous set
point, so it's substantially redundant.  Excluding it means you can't go
back to an earlier set point, but presumably, you could simply restore an
earlier backup. For the same effect.

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

This is a trace of code and data that's loaded during the boot process, to
speed up future booting.  If it's wiped out, it gets rebuilt again upon
booting, so it seems pretty pointless to back it up.




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