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Hans05's avatar
Hans05
Level 4
5 years ago

Ongoing Source of Frustration / Feature Request

I've been a user of System Recovery for MANY years but I have this love / hate relationship with it.

I had a multi-year maintenance agreement, let it lapse (on purpose), a few years later, I'm back, but again considering bailing.

I love the UI and how easy it is to manage my backups. However, the big frustration that I keep running into is the inability to exclude files and / or directories from my image backups.

I have a few significantly large files that get backed up via other means so I really don't need duplicated effort and space used by System Recovery. But there STILL is no way way to exclude files from my image backups.

So, here I am once again pleading and asking; are there any plans to finally implement such a capability?

I've used at least 3 other disk imaging programs with this capability, but as noted, I really like other aspects of System Recovery.

Any comments, or at least a sliver of hope that this might at least be a feature under consideration? :-)

Windows 10
  • akihiro1's avatar
    akihiro1
    Moderator
    5 years ago

    As far as I know, we already have a workaround to exclude files or filders from VSR image backups. See the below article and post. It is a way to add a registry key to exclude files or folders from VSS snapshots.

    Solution section in https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.100047706

    and 

    my reply in "https://vox.veritas.com/t5/System-Recovery/VSR-18-Folder-Backup-With-Exclusions/m-p/874129"

    In my reply in VOX, I wrote a caution like below. The registry may also work for the other backup software using VSS snapshots. That is, even if you try to back up a file or folder by the other backup software after adding the registry, the file may be also excluded from the backups. Then, please remove the registry before the backups by software, and add it before backups by VSR. 

    Caution: If you use this key, the files in D:\test01\02\*.* and subfolders will be excluded even if backed up by any backup sofotware (Not only System Recovery but also Windows backup or 3rd party backup software). 

    Thanks,

    • Hans05's avatar
      Hans05
      Level 4
      5 years ago

      I appreciate the thought, but recall how I mentioned that I have other means for backing up the files I wanted to exclude from System Recovery? Modifying the registry to exclude those files breaks my other backups!

      Still, I appreciate the thought, but it's really not a substitute for putting it in the product.

       

      • akihiro1's avatar
        akihiro1
        Moderator
        5 years ago

        Does anyone agree with this request from Hans05 ? I would like to know how much demand there is.