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How do I exclude Windows System Restore data from my backups? There is almost no value in having it be part of an Acronis backup -- and it certainly isn't worth the space tradeoff to me.

The only mention I could find of a hint is this broken link posted by an Acronis support person:
http://kb.acronis.com/content/1754

Sounds like it might be just what I'm looking for.

Thank you.

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In Windows, System tools provide a disk cleanup facility. This is useful to clear out the sometimes vast collection of temp files which accumulate. There is a tab of options for recovering more disk space, one of which enables the removal of all but the latest system restore point.
Running these tasks the first time may tke several minutes, however if done before every backup the time taken is minimal and space and time is saved when the backup is run.

dev-anon, thanks -- I had tried that before, but came away thinking that only file exclusions were allowed. Clicking "Add" did add it to the exclusions list. The prompt should say "Files or folders."

xpilot, thanks -- but I don't want to blow away my system restore data on a daily basis (I'd just turn it off if I did).

Thank you both!

You can turn off system restore for individual drives which will reduce the amount of stored data on drive being backed up. also you can limit the amount of disk space allocated to system restore -- you can still do this in w7. The penalty is that you can have as many restore points saved, but, as you note, that means less if you have disk backups.

If you google it, you'll find explanations of how to do it.

Scott,

Thanks. Unfortunately, the following are all concurrently true:

--My system partition is the one w/ the large backup size. System Restore has near-zero value on non-system partitions, and the space used on them is minimal.

--I like my System Restore size just fine -- a bunch of restore points and lots of shadow copies. I have a 1TB system drive and use about 100GB for stuff I want backed up.

--The problem is not w/ Windows System Restore -- the problem is that TI backs up the sysvol folder. [I'm not convinced that anything short of a sector-by-sector disk image would result in a usable sysvol restore. I think I remember that Win System Restore uses some direct-read/write tricks to increase speed. I'm too lazy to refresh my memory, though.]

I just checked last night's incremental -- no sysvol and no recycle bin, so dev-anon's instructions above work perfectly!