System backup utilities that can exclude files

The problem: I would like to maintain Windows system backups and personal data backups separately.

The (possible) solution: a backup utility that somehow allows me to exclude files.

The question: does such a thing exist? Is it even possible? Note that I'm talking about a full system backup utility, which preserves NTFS permissions.

(Seeing as I have yet to hear of any archive format that preserves NTFS permissions, and I don't think Volume Shadow Copy can handle this, I suspect the answer is "no"; but I figured it was worth asking.)

 

Gullible Jones,

Have you considered having your personal data in a partition separate from the OS? Image the OS in the usual way and backup whatever files you desire in the data partition. I like Second Copy 8 for data backups. You can exclude data from the backup and it can copy NTFS File and Folder security information.

 

That is how I currently handle things on Windows. For various reasons it's not quite ideal, but thank you nonetheless.

 

backup of ntfs permissions? Easy

http://www.kls-soft.com/klsbackup/index.php