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TI v11.0 build8,101: recycle bin and temp folder

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Can anyone tell me how to exclude the recycle bin from a full "disks and partitions" backup? Will the archive still restore properly if I exclude this folder?

Also, can I exclude C:\DOCUME~1\user\LOCALS~1\Temp without affecting the restoration?

I run a full partition of my computer running XP Pro every night and it came in very handy this morning when a ridiculous virus tore through my machine (to a point where system restore wouldn't even come up). I want to make my differential archives smaller but don't know what I can safely exclude.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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Yes you can exclude these folders. You can exclude any folder you are OK with completely loosing when you restore, and that Windows will recreate when needed. Many folders are like this. Some are not: for example some hidden folders in the Windows Index storage.
Recycle bin, pagefile.sys, temp folders, hiberfil.sys are OK to exclude.

Just to clarify, pagefile.sys and hiberfile.sys are automatically excluded by TI.

I keep reading that pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys are automatically excluded, but when I browse a backup I see them. I'm doing incremental backups, and they are consistently in the 2GB range, so either those two files compress more than I would ever expect or I'm seeing something that isn't there.

For that matter, when I browse a backup (incremental chain, in this case), does each day's backup reflect everything that's gone before? In other words, does it show files that were backed up in a previous operation but not in the one I've selected to browse? I think that's what's going on, but I find the program help tantalizingly incomplete. (It always seems to stop just short of answering my question.)

I keep reading that pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys are automatically excluded, but when I browse a backup I see them. I'm doing incremental backups, and they are consistently in the 2GB range, so either those two files compress more than I would ever expect or I'm seeing something that isn't there.

I just found a post in a different thread that says, basically, that pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys are not really in your backup. What you see are placeholders, which "magically" show the original file sizes.

It shows accumulated state - if there is file A in full, file B added in incremental, it will show both.