(03-11-2026, 11:33 PM)CDC9762 Wrote: I'm a bit curious and that's all. It's your computer, your data and your desired way of doing things.
My curiosity concerns why desire so many exclusions in a backup program? My view, is to keep a backup and restore as simple as possible and it is better to backup too much rather than find it was too little.
My method to avoid files I don't want to image as frequently as the others, such as games which don't change much, is to put them on their own partition.
NP... I appreciate you sharing what works for you! But the thing is that your plan won't work for me. For example, you said ( My method to avoid files I don't want to image as frequently as the others, such as games which don't change much, is to put them on their own partition )... I also want to image all my drives and folders/files and I do, I just change the backup frequency Like once a day or week for the folders/files I figure don't need so much attention. No messing around with partitions
and moving things around. Exclusions help me to take out the huge files/folders, backup those nearly empty partitions, and create backup jobs for those excluded folders/files to restore back to those already restored original partitions later. For me anyway, this plan is simple, and I never have found a restore that "was too little"...My Plan may sound rediculous to you, but Hey, it makes me happy.