how to see what folders are excluded in onedrive backup job

[StefanSch]

Hello,

i try to figure out what onedrive folders are excluded in an existing job.

is there a way via powershell? if so, what is the command?
Couldn't find any documentation regarding this.

Thanks in advance.
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S.

[Polina]

Hi Stefan,

Get-VBOJob -Name "your job name" | fl will do the job.

[StefanSch]

Hello Polina,

thank you for your answer.
Works perfect.... but leads me to the next "problem"
If i see that in the current job some folders are excluded, how can i include them back again?
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S

[Polina]

By editing a backup job with the Set-VBOJob cmdlet and specifying the SelectedOneDriveFolders, for example.

[StefanSch]

Hello Polina,

thanks again.
instead of specifying each and every excluded folder would something like this also work?

Set-VBOJob -Job $job -EnableExcludedOneDriveFolders -ExcludedOneDriveFolders @()

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S

[Polina]

That would work as well.

Note though, that there's the following limitation:
OneDrive folders that have been excluded from processing via PowerShell will remain permanently excluded from all future incremental runs of a backup job. If you remove such a OneDrive from a job and later re-add it, the folders that were previously excluded will not be backed up.

[StefanSch]

Hi Polina,

thanks for the hint.
may you can answer one (last?) question:
I'm trying to exclude one specific onedrive folder from being backed up, but somehow i can get it to work.
I looked around in the forum and found a few helpful posts but somehow i can't get it working.
The Folder i'd like to exclude is the "outlook files" folder under documents.
I tried:
Set-VBOJob -Job $job -EnableExcludedOneDriveFolders -ExcludedOneDriveFolders @("/documents/outlook Files/")
and
Set-VBOJob -Job $job -EnableExcludedOneDriveFolders -ExcludedOneDriveFolders @("outlook files")
In both cases the job is still backing up the files in that folder.
What am i doing wrong?
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S