Exclusions
Using XP Pro and TI 9 home
In trying to minimize backup archive size I am trying to exclude as much Windows junk as I can. So far I have excluded pagefile.sys, hiberfil.sys, and "System Volume Information". I haven't tried to restore yet. Should I expect any problems other than some corrupted system restore errors?
Another question I have is about doing the same on Vista. I tested on a brand new laptop but I am at a loss as far as what Microsoft junk I can skip. This "clean" install occupies 21 Gigs and best archive compression gets down to 19 Gigs. Anybody have any suggestions?
Yes, I am using 2009 home. TI has one of the most confusing version history I have seen!
And just for everybody's info:
I found that if you are trying to exclude a directory you must specify an exact path. Wild card "*" seem to work at the end but no where elses.
So,
\System Volume Information\ * <= fails to exclude anything
C:\System Volume Information\* <= works as expected
This does not work in TI home 11 on XP pro SP3;
I do full image backup of one hard drive, that includes the C partition and 2 Dell partitions. If I exclude as above it gives an error as soon as it starts backing up c partition and aborts. Without the exclusion it always creates (and validates) the image.
I use diskcleanup to delete all but last restore point to reduce the size of the restore points.
The problem seems to be that there are multiple subfolders and in TII 11 one apparently has to specify the paths to files. The structure of restore points is shown in the pic
Is this a TI 11 bug or is it just that I am running on a newly installed XP OS?
I looked at my restore sub folders and found about 24 RPxx files, SVI folder is skipped in the archive and no errors. I also have a "skip-bakup" folder with about 30 gigs of video and audio files in many sub directories that is excluded as well without error.
JRosenfeld:
My reply #1 above referred to an article about Vista. From your picture in reply #3 for XP, wouldn't the exclude syntax be as follows:
\System Volume Information\_restore*
Mark,
No, I tried that, but it still gives the same error message: error E00070021, unable to create volume snapshot
(it is not clear to me whether 'snapshot' refers to the subfolder of that name that appears in each of the restore point folders, as shown in pic in my previous post, or means a snapshot of the whole C partition)
I also tried
C:\System Volume Information\*
(which would then also exclude the index catalog and the other contents of that folder)
C:\System Volume information\_restore*\*
and other similar. I still think it gets hung up because of the subfolders whereas it clearly states the exclusion refers to files.
I haven't tried excluding all the paths to all the subfolders in each restore point, that would be more effort than is worth to reduce the image by a couple of GB.
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No, I tried that, but it still gives the same error message: error E00070021, unable to create volume snapshot
Please check this article in our database for a solution.
Thank you.
Pagefile.sys is not excluded (by default) when making image backups, at least not on my system (XP Pro SP3) with ATIH v11 (build.8082, Dutch) or with v2010 (build 7046, Dutch).
See also this topic or this topic.
And BTW, I don't use System Restore. The only reliable way of restoring previous situations, is restoring an image backup (at least when Windows is corrupted).