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A few months ago my HD failed and I restored from Vista backups I made, only to discover that certain files were not being backed up. Specifically, .JS files that I use for my web sites. I can see all my folders and sub folders, but the scripts subfolder was empty of my javascript files. For everyweb site I created the scripts folder was empty.

So I purchased Acronis TIH 2010 last month. Now I am finding out that the same thing is happening.

I can set up a file backup of one folder, let's say website1. Under /website1 I have several .HTM files and sub folders such as ./images and ./scripts and ./css

However the restore only shows /website1 with the .HTM files and only one subfolder ./images with all of the images. The ./scripts and ./css subfolders are missing?

Is there an inclusionary setting I need to configure somewhere?

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Hi Paul,

You can look in the ATI exclusions settings under the default options to see if by chance these file types are being excluded, but (at least in ATI2009 which I use) they aren't. That is weird that even the scripts and css folder names didn't get saved in the backup.

Possibly related to your issue: XP by default prevents search results showing up when trying to search for ASP files and a couple of other server related file types. I had to edit my registry to get XP to treat these files like any other file type so that I could get them to show up in my search results when, for example, searching for a particular variable name within some of my ASP files. I wonder if you need to make a similar registry change in Vista so that the OS doesn't treat these file types as special file types? I don't use Vista, so this is just a thought for a possible solution.

Maybe check out the info in these links. The first one is especially interesting and should give you a clue as to what may be going on:

http://www.andybrain.com/qna/2008/07/23/vista-backup-does-not-save-pref…

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article02-500

Wow the first link you sent was dead on the money. I am fortunate that all of my web sites are live and I can FTP download all of my .JS files to the right folder in my hard drive (my tertiary backup method) but it is still time consuming.