Excluding files and folders in System Backups & Disk / Partition Backups

[guest123]

Hello,

It looks like that HBS is skipping this registry branch :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore\FilesNotToBackup

Browsing my system backup , I can see that the C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution folder exists in the archive.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore\FilesNotToBackup\WUA :

%windir%\softwaredistribution\*.* /s

I just did a Full Disk Partition image, and it appears that none of the registry entries are being honored.

I'm also seeing pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys in the image as well. I posted the screen shot of that in a repy to admin.

So even though HBS uses VSS to snapshot the system, it seems it does not follow any of the exclusions.

Disappointing.

Have you checked that pagefile & swapfile are actually occupying space & not just placeholders which is what admin mentioned in earlier post here?