Am 21.03.2013 um 16:27 schrieb Chris Adams <cmadams AT hiwaay DOT net>:

> 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.

Sorry, this is a misunderstanding. I checked it out once more: The resulting 
backup-file of ntbackup is about 500MB each day even if the system is rarely 
used. 

> 
> 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"
>  }
> 

I exclude lots of windows stuff but never excluded "System Volume Information". 
Is it really save even if I don't use ntbackup in the future?

--
Freundliche Grüße
Christoph


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