Yes, it's a "known weak point", I was just curious if anybody mentions
it ;-). Re-assigning "My Documents" to any non-default place is another one.
However, within any organization there is probably one standard of the
"software language" so one could adjust the paths to taste/country. I
admit that I've managed sites with three different language versions as
the base ones in use (English, Estonian, Russian), though... But anyway
a company shall have a policy on backups to state pre-requisites for a
successful backup.
I personally try to avoid "local" versions and try to use
basic_english+MUI (be it Windows, MS Office, OpenOffice or whatever
else) if possible.
Alex
Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> Alex Ehrlich <Alex.Ehrlich AT mail DOT ee> writes:
>
>> So the proposed FileSet aims to backup: My Documents, the contents
>> of the Desktop (as many users tend to store their documents just at
>> the desktop), IE Favorites, MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express
>> settings and data, Thunderbird settings and data, Firefox
>> profiles. IE and Firefox cache shall be excluded, of course; also
>> some space wasters like iTunes shall not be backed up.
>> The file locations are "default for Win2K/XP/2K3". For Vista/2K8 there
>> are different default base directories used, but let's exclude this
>> part for simplicity now.
>> [...]
>> WildDir = "c:/Documents and Settings/All Users"
>>
>
> you're not using Estonian Windows? all these paths will vary based on
> the language of the installed software. I would be wary of using such
> a fileset, since it very easily will miss important files. I'd keep
> it simple, and only exclude certain filetypes, like *.mp3 and *.wmv.
>
> for image based OS installations, the Base level backup would be a
> good way to avoid wasting space on duplicated OS files, but I don't
> know the status of that feature (AFAIK it's not functional yet).
>
>
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