How to Exclude specific subfolders

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achirinos
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Joined: Wed May 05, 2010 7:35 pm

Post by achirinos »

Lets say I'm backing up Mirror style a folder that has many subfolders. As the Source I specify something like C:\Users\Myname. Then I would like to Exclude all the contents of a subfolder named say C:\Users\Myname\Miscelaneous, so that I don't backup it's files within this backup job (I will use another Destination for this subfolder in a separate job).
I've tried specifying the name of the subfolder (Miscelaneous) as an exclude Filter (ckecking "Use as a exclude filter" box), but it doesn't exclude it... it still backs it up.
I've tried specifying the name of the subfolder (Miscelaneous) as an include Filter (unckecking "Use as a exclude filter" box), but then it doesn't backup anything at all, i.e. none of the other folders and files I do want to backup.
When specifying a Filter, FBackup does not allow for the use of the backslash (\) symbol to build something like excluding Miscelaneous\*.*
What can I do?
Thanx.


Adrian (Softland)
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Joined: Thu May 23, 2013 7:57 am

Post by Adrian (Softland) »

Hi,
In FBackup you can only filter the files, you cannot filter the folders.

If you want to be able to also filter the folders, please try using Backup4all, our commercial product.

Do you know you can monitor your backups remotely with Backup4all Monitor? You can read more here: https://www.backup4all.com/backup4all-monitor.html