How can I delete system volume information from a backup that has been made?

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Took a backup of a PC that has a really large amount of system volume information, circa 60Gb. None of this information is needed and I would like to remove it from the backup that has been created.

Unfortunately I cannot seem to get access to the files to remove them. I've tried altering the security permissions to take ownership of the "System Volume Information" folder so that I could delete it, but I am not having any luck.

Removing the system volume information from the PC before backup is not an option - for reasons too long and boring to go into here! :)

Mon, 12/06/2010 - 22:24
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There isn't any way to remove them from the image file directly. Even if you Mounted the image and deleted them, the image file would still be the same (the changes would be in an Incremental).

You could restore the backup to a drive (a spare, for example), delete the files, and then create a new backup. Another option would be to try excluding them when creating the backup.

Tue, 12/07/2010 - 00:54
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Thanks for the info. There have been so many changes to ATI it can be hard to keep up! The last time I edited a backup I don't think it made an increment (that would be an old version of ATI).

I'll do what you suggest.

Hopefully there may be an option in future versions of ATI to miss out the System Restore area. With Windows Vista, and 7 being so large, and the fact that System Restore now uses a set percentage of ever larger hard drives this folder is ever increasing in size!

Tue, 12/07/2010 - 08:25
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well, the initial question was whether it's possible to delete the "system restore points" from an *.tib image file that has already been created.
no idea about that one.

i have a related question:
i'm using ATI 2011 from bootable rescue media.
i usually power down my system gracefully and fire up the bootable media to create a HDD image via ATI.
i'd assume that true image will exclude the following type of files from the backup "per default":

  • hiberfil.sys
  • pagefile.sys (swap)
  • windows "system restore points"

does it not?

cheers, philipp

Tue, 12/07/2010 - 21:46