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fazzauk
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Exclude Folders or Directory from Backup job

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Good morning all,

Just been asked to exclude a sub directory on a drive from the backup job.

When I go to edit the job and exclude the sub directory the only option is to exclude the whole drive, is there another way?

I had a look at guest processing which is not enabled on the file server job but if I do enable i can exclude the directory in the processing settings, is this method supported?

using v10 on vsphere environment
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Re: Exclude Folders or Directory from Backup job

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Hello fazzauk,

Please try to enabled VM Guest OS File Exclusion under application processing options in the vm backup job and add the desired folder to the exclusion list. Cheers!
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Re: Exclude Folders or Directory from Backup job

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just to add, exclusion rules only work for Windows based guest OS
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