zigzak Jun 14 10:33AM 2017 GUI
Hi, Just noticed that a backup I have configured to the root of a drive on a Windows Server was busy indexing the "\$RECYCLE.BIN" folder.
There's no point, usually anyway, backing up this folder. Would it be possible to have a default option which might automatically populate "Excluded Folders" with the common Windows system areas. Another candidate would be the "\System Volume Information" folder.
David
gchen Jun 14 12:24PM 2017
That is a good idea and should be in the Windows GUI version only. When a root drive is selected as the repository, those two directories should be automatically put into the exclude list.
I'll plan this for the next version (2.0.3).
Nicholas Sherlock Dec 6 8:03PM 2017
Did this feature end up making it in? I didn't see it in the release notes.
gchen Dec 8 12:14PM 2017
I'll add this feature to the coming 2.1.0 version (which should be available by the end of next week).
Christoph Dec 30 11:45PM 2017
Are you aware that Windows provides its own exlusion list at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore\FilesNotToBackup?
It would be great if duplicacy would honour that list by default...
gchen Dec 31 12:37PM 2017
I didn't know that before. Those look like good candidates for populating the exclude pattern list when backing up an entire drive.