The following are limitations of ABM:
To enable ABM:
Rapid Recovery and ABM allow you to exclude files from backup. To enable an exclusion you need to specify a path to exclude. Rapid Recovery uses file globbing when excluding files (this is similar to how the windows command line "dir" command works. This means that each path needs to specify the files to exclude, not just a folder path. Paths are not case sensitive. The question mark (?) and star (*) wildcards are permitted. Below is a table of the exclusions that you can make and the expected result of the exclusion. All example exclusions are based on the following hypothetical files/folders on a system:
Path | Exclude subfolders option checked? | Files excluded from backup |
file1.txt | No | D:\File1.txt |
file?.txt | No | D:\File1.txt |
file?.* | No | D:\File1.txt D:\File2.rtf |
*.* | No | D:\File1.txt D:\File2.rtf |
file1.txt | Yes | D:\File1.txt D:\Folder\File1.txt |
file?.txt | Yes | D:\File1.txt D:\Folder\File1.txt |
file?.* | Yes | D:\File1.txt D:\Folder\File1.txt D:\File2.rtf D:\Folder\File2.rtf |
*.* | Yes | D:\Folder\File1.txt D:\Folder\File2.rtf |
folder\file1.txt | Yes | D:\Folder\File1.txt |
folder\*.* | Yes | D:\Folder\File1.txt D:\Folder\File2.rtf |
Below are some common exclusions and how to implement them:
To avoid backing up all the files in a folder:
To avoid backing up all the tmp files in a single directory:
To avoid backing up all the tmp files in folder1 and folder2:
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