Source Files Exclusion - ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition User Manual

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Source files exclusion

This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems and bootable media.
This option is effective for disk-level backup of NTFS and FAT file systems only. This option is effective
for file-level backup of all supported file systems.
The option defines which files and folders to skip during the backup process and thus exclude from
the list of backed-up items.
The preset is: Exclude files matching the following criteria: *.tmp, *.~, *.bak.
To specify which files and folders to exclude:
Set up any of the following parameters:

Exclude all hidden files and folders
Select this check box to skip files and folders with the Hidden attribute. If a folder is Hidden, all of
its contents — including files that are not Hidden — will be excluded.

Exclude all system files and folders
Select this check box to skip files and folders with the System attribute. If a folder is System, all of
its contents — including files that are not System — will be excluded.
You can view file or folder attributes in the file/folder properties or by using the attrib command. For more
information, refer to the Help and Support Center in Windows.
 Exclude files matching the following criteria
Select this check box to skip files whose names match any of the criteria — called file masks — in
the list; use the Add, Edit, Remove and Remove All buttons to create the list of file masks.
You can use one or more wildcard characters * and ? in a file mask:
The asterisk (*) substitutes for zero or more characters in a file name; for example, the file mask
Doc*.txt yields files such as Doc.txt and Document.txt
The question mark (?) substitutes for exactly one character in a file name; for example, the file
mask Doc?.txt yields files such as Doc1.txt and Docs.txt — but not the files Doc.txt or Doc11.txt
Exclusion examples
Criterion Example
By name File1.log
By path C:\Finance\test.log
Mask (*) *.log
Mask (?) my???.log
The above settings are not effective for the files or folders that were explicitly selected for backup. For example,
assume that you selected the folder MyFolder and the file MyFile.tmp outside that folder, and selected to skip
all .tmp files. In this case, all .tmp files in the folder MyFolder will be skipped during the backup process, but the
file MyFile.tmp will not be skipped.
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Description
Excludes all files named File1.log.
Excludes the file named test.log located in the folder
C:\Finance
Excludes all files with the .log extension.
Excludes all .log files with names consisting of five symbols
and starting with "my".
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