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File History. What are the defaults included in a backup?
Hi
I’ve been trying Win 10 File History and am most confused.
First I did a Test run and selected just one folder (Test Folder) to be backed up to an external drive.
After the backup had been running for about 5 minutes & my Test Folder was only about 2Mbs in size I looked in my external drive to check out what was occurring.
Unfortunately what I didn’t realise is that there seems to be a default bunch of folders that File History backs up whether you selected them or not. Worse, these include the vast bulk of my system drive including Windows, Program Data, Program files, Program Files(x86) etc.
I hadn’t added these and they didn’t appear in Backup Options/Back up these folders!
I’ve searched around & have yet to find a list of which folders are included by default.
So I aborted the back up and then began adding numerous folders to the exclude list, (I’d placed the Test Folder in Users/Myname) but after while I decided that this approach would take ages since I could only select 1 folder at a time! This surely couldn’t be the correct method as I’d end with dozens of entries in the exclude list.
Well I ran it anyway and got garbled results. God knows what it intended to back up but it certainly wasn’t what I expected so I aborted again. Two aborts and it now looked like I’d borked the whole show.
Luckily I found the TenForums batch file to reset it (thanks for that).
So, am I a complete idiot, is there secret File History documentation that I’ve yet to find or is it just another Microsoft bug?
(BTW, I’m still on Home version 1511 - haven’t seen the infamous Anniversary update yet and will be very wary when it turns up).