Hoe to exclude 0kb files - BS 11d

[BLASTMAN]

Morning all,

I'm backing up a NAS with 11d using the user definded selection list.

All is well apart from the fact that everytime BS hits a 0kb file the backup job hangs.

I've starting going through all the files and folders to remove the files in question and excluding directorys if there needed, but I'd like to find a way of telling BS to skip any file that has a size smaller than 1 (0kb)

There must be a way of doing it, but so far my googling hasn't got me very far.

Has anyone got any thoughts??

Many thanks in advance :)

[CraigV · Accepted solution]

Hi BLASTMAN,

Unfortunately it doesn't appear to be. You can only exclude files changed on certain dates/not accessed in X-number of days etc.
What I would suggest is putting in an exclusion for those files if you know the folder they currently lie in. That also assumes they're in the same folder.

Laters!

[BLASTMAN]

Hi,

thanks for the reply,

sadly thats not a real option as the next backup job will fail when a new tmp file or whatever is created.

Someone has just just suggested that i try a job without any compression. So far, I've been using hardware compression only, so I'm going to wait till the current test job completes and I'll give it a bash.

[CraigV]

Well, if they are *.tmp files only, then create an exclusion for *.tmp files in whatever directories/drives you're backing up.
That is easy enough...just open up your selection list, and  you will see the Include/Exclude section...

[CraigV]

Any news here? Has it helped at all?

[CraigV]

Any news here?