It looks like you didn't try
exclude {
file = "C:/System Volume Information"
}
(or with D: if necessary)
__Martin
>>>>> On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 08:40:08 -0000, Luc Van der Veken said:
>
> Hi all,
> What is the correct way to exclude a directory on Windows in an Exclude
> section?
>
> I just found out that neither of these works, the directory is always
> included.
> It seems to work as expected for files, but not for directories (slash at
> the end).
>
> exclude {
> file = "System Volume Information/"
> file = System Volume Information/
> file = "System\ Volume\ Information/"
> file = "C:/System\ Volume\ Information/"
> file = "C:/System\ Volume\ Information/"
> }
>
> But this works, is that the only way?
>
> include {
> options {
> exclude = yes
> wilddir = "*:/System Volume Information"
> }
> File = ....
> }
>
> To my shame I must admit that I've been backing up older Windows versions
> (Server 2003, XP, WIndows 7 etc.) for 3 years using the first variation
> above, without noticing that the directory was included.
>
> It's only after a Windows 10 PC was added a week ago that I started
> noticing something off. Incremental backups of 20 GB per day, every day,
> even when the system had been powered off all day and was just powered on
> by Wake-On-Lan at night to back it up, didn't seem quite normal. The
> culprit was a file "D:\Documents and Settings\{guid}" of 18 GB that
> changed every day.
>
>
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