Veeam agent for Windows hybrid approach

[DisposableBytes]

Hello,
I'm currently looking into Veeam Agent for Windows for creating an image of the operating system for disaster recovery/migration purposes.

I have all my personal data stored in C:\Users\<username>, and I actually want to exclude it from the image because it gets updated constantly and I back it up daily using Bvckup as I prefer to be able to access the files directly on the back up drive without having to install absoftware for reading the file format in which they are stored. I intend to use Veeam to take an image of the OS only once a month.

I've noticed that I can't exclude folders if I opt for the Volume level backup option, but can if I select the File-based backip option.

My question is: Would selecting the OS volume (together with the two other EFI/Boot volumes) while excluding the folders I'm not interested in allow me later to perform a bare-metal restore of the operating system to a working condition?

Thank you.

[HannesK]

Hello,
and welcome to the forums.

Yes, if you select "Operating System" in file based backup, then you can do bare metal restore. But if you do that, then you cannot exclude the c:\users\... folder.

For folders on other drives than c:\, you can do the workaround I mentioned here post355700.html

Best regards,
Hannes

[DisposableBytes]

Thank you, Hannes.
That's unfortunate.
With the size of current SSDs I like to store all my data (apart from photos) in the Users folders instead of partition the drive, which results in a waste of space because Windows doesn't extend or shrink the volumes as needed.

I think this could be a useful feature to add to Veeam.