On Thursday 08 March 2012 20:35:10 Andrea Conti wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > I've added exclude entries for most of the folders
> > I don't want to back up but they're still being included,
>
> Which folders are still being included? All of them or just some?
>
> A lot of the "default" folders under windows 7 (for example 'Application
> Data' and 'Local Settings' in every user directory) are really junction
> points, i.e. a kind of link referring to some other folder: you are
> probably excluding the junction points (which bacula does not descend
> into anyway) instead of the actual folders.
>
> You can use "dir /a" in a command prompt to quickly find out what
> folders are really junctions and what they point to.
>
> andrea
Hi Andrea,
Examples are:
C:/Windows/winsxs/
C:/$Recycle.Bin/
C:/dell
The user has taken her laptop home so I'm looking at another Win7 PC but here
are the dir outputs:
C:\>dir /a
dir /a
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is F8E2-C48B
Directory of C:\
21/02/2012 13:29 <DIR> $Recycle.Bin
21/02/2012 17:05 1,024 .rnd
21/02/2012 13:36 86 csb.log
14/07/2009 05:08 <JUNCTION> Documents and Settings [C:\Users]
07/03/2012 16:42 3,208,044,544 hiberfil.sys
21/02/2012 13:32 <DIR> Intel
21/02/2012 17:06 390 ladmine-fd.conf
21/02/2012 13:50 <DIR> MSOCache
07/03/2012 16:42 4,277,395,456 pagefile.sys
14/07/2009 03:20 <DIR> PerfLogs
21/02/2012 16:10 <DIR> Program Files
24/02/2012 03:00 <DIR> Program Files (x86)
21/02/2012 16:16 <DIR> ProgramData
21/02/2012 13:29 <DIR> Recovery
21/02/2012 13:36 3,026 RHDSetup.log
07/03/2012 02:17 <DIR> System Volume Information
21/02/2012 16:10 <DIR> Users
08/03/2012 23:31 <DIR> Windows
6 File(s) 7,485,444,526 bytes
12 Dir(s) 458,721,439,744 bytes free
C:\Windows>dir /a
dir /a
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is F8E2-C48B
Directory of C:\Windows
08/03/2012 23:31 <DIR> .
08/03/2012 23:31 <DIR> ..
[snip]
21/02/2012 14:10 499 win.ini
14/07/2009 04:54 749 WindowsShell.Manifest
08/03/2012 19:36 1,242,504 WindowsUpdate.log
08/03/2012 23:31 16,896 winexesvc.exe
14/07/2009 01:14 9,728 winhlp32.exe
03/03/2012 03:19 <DIR> winsxs
10/06/2009 20:52 316,640 WMSysPr9.prx
14/07/2009 01:39 10,240 write.exe
37 File(s) 8,954,905 bytes
59 Dir(s) 458,721,435,648 bytes free
C:\Windows>
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Gary Stainburn
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