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Hello,
First of all, many thanks to Hasleo Software for offering the Hasleo Backup Suite. A very nice tool developed actively by Hasleo.
Kindly, is it possible to exclude files and folders before starting System Backups and Disk / Partition Backups?
For example, some folders like C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution and C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Temp can contain a lot of unnecessary files increasing the size of the backups.
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I'm sorry that HBS doesn't currently support excluding files and folders, we'll implement it in future releases.
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Hello,
Thanks, I will wait for the future releases.
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Just for further clarification, does HBS incl the hibernation & page file too in OS/system backup?
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I believe not, just FileSystem place holders with no storage associated with them.
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12-09-2023, 11:48 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-20-2023, 06:16 PM by OldNavyGuy.)
Since HBS uses VSS, it follows it should follow the list of files to exclude in the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore\FilesNotToBackup
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The current version of HBS does not back up the contents of page file, swap file and hibernation file by default when backing up the system partition.
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Hello,
It looks like that HBS is skipping this registry branch :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore\FilesNotToBackup
Browsing my system backup , I can see that the C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution folder exists in the archive.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore\FilesNotToBackup\WUA :
%windir%\softwaredistribution\*.* /s
