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Excluding Linux SWAP partition from backup.

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Hello,

I perform backup of entire Ubuntu machine with some folders exclusion.

Backup ends with warning:

"Volume 'sda3' is backed up without filtering its files.
Filtering of files in the LINUXSWAP file system is not supported."
 
How can I exclude swap partition from full backup to get rid of this warning?
I tried to exclude /dev/sda3 but this did not work.
 
Thanks in advance.
Leonid.
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Hi Leonid,

There is a known issue in Update 1 (bug ID: ABR-125422) - when "Files filters" option is enabled then the warning will be thrown for Linux machines practically always when there is at least one volume where files filters rules are not applicable, even if the defined rules are not for other volumes (and actually work fine). In the upcoming Update 2 (to be released during this week) there will be no warning shown in this case, however files filters rules are still not applicable to Linux SWAP partitions - they cannot be excluded this way, because they are already not backed up at all automatically without any additional adjustments - we only put information about SWAP partitions location into the backup archive and fill it with zeroes upon recovery.

Note that above is applicable only to VMs without LVMs inside - the VMs with LVMs are always backed up in sector-by-sector mode, so neither files filters nor policy rules would work.

Thank you.

Hi Vasily,

Thank you for answer.

Regards,
Leonid.