How about dedupe/base jobs as well?

On Mar 21, 2013, at 12:09 PM, "Chris Adams" <cmadams AT hiwaay DOT net> wrote:

> Once upon a time, Christoph Litauer <litauer AT uni-koblenz DOT de> said:
>> This works but has two ceveats: ntbackup runs several minutes even on an 
>> unused system and the resulting backup is severeal gb every day.
> 
> It sounds like you are not excluding things you should exclude.  An
> incremental backup of an unused system should not be several GB/day.
> 
> Something like this should help (but remember that changing the
> include/exclude will cause the next backup to be promoted to a full
> backup):
> 
>  Options {
>    # Windows is case-preserving, NOT case-sensitive
>    Ignore Case = yes
>    Exclude = yes
> 
>    # general Windows stuff
>    wilddir = "c:/Windows/$NtServicePackUninstall$"
>    wilddir = "c:/Windows/$NtUninstall*"
>    wilddir = "c:/Windows/Installer/$PatchCache$"
>    wilddir = "c:/Windows/ServicePackFiles"
>    wilddir = "c:/Windows/SoftwareDistribution/Download"
>    wilddir = "c:/Windows/Temp"
> 
>    # per drive
>    wilddir = "[a-z]:/$Recycle.Bin"
>    wilddir = "[a-z]:/RECYCLER"
>    wilddir = "[a-z]:/System Volume Information"
>    wilddir = "[a-z]:/pagefile.sys"
>  }
> 
> The biggest things that will hit incremental backups of unused systems
> are the last two in the list.  The "System Volume Information" directory
> is where VSS information is stored, so it can be large during the
> backup.  Also, any activity (such as running ntbackup) can cause changes
> in pagefile.sys, which will cause the whole file to be included in the
> backup (and it can also be big).
> 
> Now, I have a question of my own related to this: ntbackup is gone in
> newer versions of Windows.  What are people using to do the equivalent
> of "ntbackup backup systemstate" there?
> -- 
> Chris Adams <cmadams AT hiwaay DOT net>
> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
> I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
> 
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