Trry to figure out excludeonedrivefolders syntax powershell

[Peejay62]

Hi,

I've been trying to figure out what the exact syntax is for defining a onedrive folder that needs to be excluded. I tried various definitions, none worked. How is a onedrive path seen within VBO? Browsing a backup I see an url mentioned for a directory. Is that url also to be considered as the path for that directory and can be given within excludeonedrivefolders? I suspect no as this didn't seem to work.
I really like to exclude some generic directories for backuprocessing of our onedrives and thus want to solve this by using excludeonedrivefolders. knowing how to define the folders would be more than welcome,

thanks, Peter

[nielsengelen]

You can just use folder names in it and they will be excluded.

[Natalia Lupacheva]

Hi Peter,

In addition, if you are looking for the example, you may take a look at this thread.

Thanks!

[Peejay62]

Well, I tried foldernames (various ways), no success.. Also looked at that other thread and it didn't help me either. I suspect the real folder(name) is different than it is visually presented by explorer. When I browse a backup I see a path (url) for a folder that is being backed up as : personal/somename/documents/testfolder. So this was a onedrive backup for "somename" for whom I'd like to exclude the testfolder. I can continue trying to find the correct path definition but maybe you can put me in the right direction for that..

thanks!

[nielsengelen]

If this is a subfolder, you should use documents\testfolder normally to exclude it. Did you try this already?

[Peejay62]

Hi Niels,

I did that, didn't work. created a complete new job to backup my onedrive. No other backup present for me. Added folderexclusion (2 folders):
....
$folders="documents\testfolder,documents\Googlechrome"
set-vbojob -job $job -excludedonedrivefolders $folders
...

ran the job, did as expected full, both folders are being backed up, so not excluded...

regards, Peter

[Mike Resseler]

Peejay62,

Can you try it like this:

$folders = @("test", "test2", "test3")

[Peejay62]

Hi Mike,

I tried that. That also didn't work (at first). To keep figuring out I changed to "selectedonedrivefolders" for trying to select just 1 folder. Put in a variety of notations for folders and succeeded in backup of one folder.
It seems to be the case that "documents" also belongs to the rootpath. So in order to select the folders "testfolders and Googlechrome" the folderarray needs to be $folders=@("testfolder", "Googlechrome")
Well, my problem is solved, I now can exclude folders that I don't want to backup out of MS365.

thanks, Peter