How to Exclude a directory from the backup

[lsd]

Just installed Paragon Backup & Recovery™, version 10.0.15.12802 (19.01.11 ) (Advanced) Free and can get it to creat a full backup.

What I'd like to do is backup the disk (only have one C:) but exclude one directory (C:\Old Disk). The "Old Disk" dir has 60GB of data thats already backed up and the rest of C drive is only around 10GB.

I've added a few Copy/Exclude filters "C:\Old Disk", "c:\Old Disk\*.*" and check that they are ticked (enabled) but each time I run the back up, I get informed that 70Gb of data will be archived.

Also as I'm testing Paragon, I assume if I backup to the C: drive (C:\Disk Image), Paragon won't try to archive "the archive" it's already trying to make ?

Anyone help ?

Leigh

[SIW2]

Tools>Settings>Copy and Backup Options>Tick Skip Archives ( normally already ticked by default)

[tjkaz]

Hello,
I'm new to this SW and have the exact (almost) same question. I'm trying to exclude a folder that has about 1TB of video files. I have added the folder as a filter and tried *.*, etc. but each time when I try to do a backup, the SW includes all the disk data (including my excluded folder) even though it says in the details that it's excluding the folder that I want to exclude.
I must be doing something wrong, as the limited instructions imply that files and/or folders can be excluded from backups or disk images.
I'm using the same version that the OP stated.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Tom

[SIW2]

It is supposed to exclude the folder, but the nature of image backups means there will be a folder of the same name in the image - it shouldn't contain the data though.

[tjkaz]

Originally Posted by SIW2

It is supposed to exclude the folder, but the nature of image backups means there will be a folder of the same name in the image - it shouldn't contain the data though.

Thanks! That's what I thought, but when it's performing the backup/image, the computed backup size clearly includes the contents of the folder that I don't want included. The HD has about 1.1 TB and all I want to back up is 0.1TB (100GB). When I perform the backup it says that the backup size is about 1.1TB. I tried to let it run for a bit to see what it would do, but after 5 mins or so, the counter said that the backup would take about 17 hours (and was increasing).
So to get this straight, all I have to do is select a folder that I want to exclude and the program will exclude it and all the subfolders and files under it? And, check the checkbox of course. If so, that's what I've been doing.

[GaussTek]

I was just using this and I have exactly the same 'problem'.

My disk is 320GB and in which I have about ~250 GB of Data. Around ~200 GB of these is from media and installed PC games I want to exclude , so I assumed my image size would be around ~50GB.

I selected these folders from the exclude options, however the estimated backup size was 170GB. I said, OK and I let it run it.... (the operation log shows the excluded folders I selected). It's still running, and I'm around 48%, BUT the operation statics section says:

Data processed: 123 GB
Data to process: 253 GB

So it seems it's doing a FULL backup, and also seems it's not even considering the initial estimated backup file size.

It is supposed to to something at the end, it's just a bug or we are doing something wrong? Still 4 hours remain, so I don't know if I need to cancel it or what. It seems I will let it run and see how the backup size ends.

Cheers.

[SIW2]