Windows server exclude list best practices.
Hello, Can you help me to find a best practice exclude list for Ms-Windows servers (starting from 2003 up to 2012R2)? For example : C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\*.lock C:\Program Files\...
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Steph, my typical basic starting point for excludes on backup clients is... remove the default ones that are present after installing NetBackup Client, because they're not really for clients and more for NetBackup Master Servers... and then I always add these:
*.tmp *:\Recycle.bin *:\Temp
...but make sure that you inform your server and application admins of your typical defaults - because one day an admin somewhere might want those files backed-up.
Have often excluded
~* (usually open unsaved office documents, typically occurs on file servers)
Temporary Internet files
Cache files for different applications
Database files as they typically are backed up through either an agent or by dump/backup from the database to file.
