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File Types Excluded from the Carbonite Safe Server Backup File System Backup

Summary:

Microsoft recommends that certain files not be backed up as part of a File System backup. Carbonite Safe Server Backup (CSSB) honors this recommendation.

This article applies to:

Carbonite Plans Products Platforms
Power and Ultimate (Not sure?) Carbonite Safe Server Backup (Not sure?) Windows

Solution:

These files are visible in the registry under: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore\FilesNotToBackup. The following files and folders are also excluded from your backup:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\*,
C:\Windows\Minidump\*,
C:\Windows\memory.dmp,
\hiberfil.sys,
C:\Windows\system32\MSDtc\MSDTC.LOG,
C:\Windows\system32\MSDtc\trace\dtctrace.log,
C:\Windows\softwaredistribution\*.*,
C:\Windows\netlogon.chg,
\System Volume Information\MountPointManagerRemoteDatabase,
\Pagefile.sys,
C:\Users\AMANDA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\*,
C:\Users\CarboniteUser\AppData\Local\Temp\*,
C:\Windows\system32\LogFiles\WMI\RtBackup\*.*,
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\RAC\*,
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\RAC\StateData\*,
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\RAC\Outbound\*,
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\RAC\PublishedData\*,
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\RAC\Temp\*,
\System Volume Information\*{3808876B-C176-4e48-B7AE-04046E6CC752},
\System Volume Information\*.{7cc467ef-6865-4831-853f-2a4817fd1bca}DB,
\System Volume Information\*.{7cc467ef-6865-4831-853f-2a4817fd1bca}ALT,
C:\Users\amandabackup\index.dat,
C:\Users\CarboniteUser\index.dat,
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Network\Downloader\*,
C:\Windows\System32\Bits.log,
C:\Windows\System32\Bits.bak,
C:\Windows\system32\dns\backup\dns.log,
C:\Windows\system32\dns\dns.log,
C:\Windows\system32\CertLog\*.edb,
C:\Windows\system32\CertLog\*

Note: All of these files and folders are included as part of a System State backup.

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