BillIrwin Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 I'm wondering if this Windows system folder, which I assume tracks disk usage information, is important to include in a backup? I expect that any restore will be updating the live folder and, possibly, a restore to this folder could cause problems by restoring information that's not consistent with the current disk layout. Does anyone have a recommendation on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 Hi I think this is information created by the system restore feature. I'm also pretty sure its contents are excluded by Retrospect automatically. (I may also be pretty wrong...) At any rate, I haven't seen it cause problems with restores. Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillIrwin Posted March 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 Nate: I've confirmed that this folder relates to System Restore at http://www.theeldergeek.com/system_volume_information_folder1.htm. However, R7 doesn't exclude this folder by default. One of the lines in my Selector was excluding folders that started with "C:\System Volume Information" and when I searched all my Sets for this folder I found it only in my D: partition. So I've changed the Selector to an exact match of the folder name without the path. It does seem that this area doesn't need to be included in a backup, unless you want to be able to restore to a replaced disk drive and then be able to do a System Restore. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 Thanks Bill! Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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