Backing up extraneous, redundant or non-essential files, such as temporary
files, causes unnecessarily high data change rates and excessive use of network
bandwidth, negatively affecting backup operations.
LiveVault Online Backup and Recovery Service Agent automatically excludes many directories that contain
these types of files. Additional automatic
exclusions are added with new Agent versions.
Automatic backup exclusions are
marked in MyLiveVault with the "Excluded" icon
. These exclusions cannot be changed in
MyLiveVault. However, exclusions that you create manually are not marked with
the Excluded icon in MyLiveVault. Parent
directories of automatically excluded files or directories are marked in
MyLiveVault with one of the "partially excluded" icons, either 
(if a parent directory is selected), or 
(if a parent directory is not selected).
In addition, there are some files and directories that we cannot
automatically exclude, but which we recommend that you manually exclude. You should also consider excluding files that are not business-critical and
will not need to be restored in the event of data loss.
The following table specifies the files/directories
that should be excluded from backup. The Agent version which first automatically excluded each file/directory is
also specified. For details about an exclusion and for any additional
application-specific configuration requirements, refer to the associated help
topic as noted in the following table.
| Exclude |
Automatically excluded by Agent version |
| General System Exclusions |
| DHCP jet database (backup copy) |
3.3; see DHCP Jet Database |
| Files and objects that Microsoft and other application
development companies have specified should be excluded from backup |
All versions; see Objects Specified in the FilesNotToBackup Registry Key |
| Hardware abstraction layer (hal.dll) for Windows 2000/2003 |
3.2 |
| LiveVault Online Backup and Recovery Service journal files or database files |
All versions |
| Microsoft File Replication Service (FRS) Import directory |
3.3; see Microsoft File Replication Service (FRS) |
| Microsoft Indexing Service catalogs |
4.0; see Microsoft Indexing Service |
| Microsoft Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) repository
temporary files |
3.3; see Microsoft Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) |
|
NTFS tracking log from each NTFS volume
|
All versions; see NTFS Tracking Log |
|
Paging files (pagefile.sys)
|
All versions |
| Print spool |
3.3 (Windows 2000), 3.6 (Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4), 4.0
(Windows 2000/2003 and Windows NT 4); see
Print Spools |
| Recycle bin |
3.6; see Recycle Bin |
| SMTP Mailroot folder |
4.0; see SMTP Mailroot Folder |
| Temporary folders |
3.1.2; see Temporary Folders |
| Temporary files in the root directory |
3.6; see Temporary Files in the Root Directory |
| Temporary Internet file directories |
3.1.2; see Temporary Internet Files |
| Windows Installer
temporary directory and subdirectories |
3.6; see Windows Installer |
|
Windows event log
|
All versions |
| Application-specific Exclusions |
| AMS AfW message log
file |
not automatically excluded; see
AMS AfW Backup Configuration |
| Applied Systems TAM temporary and lock
directories |
not automatically excluded; see
Applied Systems TAM Backup Configuration |
| CA BrightStor ARCserve job queue and temporary files |
4.0; see CA BrightStor ARCserve |
| Executive Software Undelete RecoveryBin directory and its subdirectories |
3.6; see Executive Software Undelete |
| Microsoft Exchange 4 and 5 Internet Mail Service directory
and its subdirectories (contains for example, temporary storage directories
for incoming and outgoing mail, and queues) |
3.3; see Microsoft Exchange: Exclusions |
| Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003 full-text
indexes |
not automatically excluded; see
Microsoft Exchange: Exclusions |
| Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003 virtual server instance directories |
4.0; see Microsoft Exchange: Exclusions |
| Microsoft SQL Server backup directories |
3.3; see SQL Server Backup Configuration |
| Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0 certain files |
3.2; see Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) |
| Veritas Backup Exec catalogs and
internal data directory |
4.0; see Veritas Backup Exec |
| Windows NTBackup catalogs |
not automatically excluded; see Windows NTBackup
|
| Anti-Virus Application-specific Exclusions |
| CA InoculateIT/eTrust
Antivirus 6.0 scan
engine logs, incoming directory, temporary files, outgoing directory, move
"quarantine" directory |
4.0; see
InoculateIT and eTrust Antivirus |
| NetShield 2000 Activity log |
3.3; see NetShield |
| NetShield temporary directory |
3.1.2; see NetShield |
| Network Associates ePolicy Orchestrator certain files |
3.3 for some
files/directories, one not automatically excluded; see ePolicy Orchestrator |
| Norton AntiVirus or Symantec AntiVirus
Corporate edition backup directory |
not automatically excluded; see Norton AntiVirus and Symantec AntiVirus |
| Norton AntiVirus or Symantec AntiVirus Corporate edition temporary files directory,
debug logging file |
4.0; see Norton AntiVirus and Symantec AntiVirus |
| Norton AntiVirus
for Microsoft Exchange and Symantec AntiVirus/Filtering for Microsoft
Exchange 2000 temporary directories |
4.0 for SAVFMSE,
not automatically excluded for NAVMSE; see
Norton AntiVirus for Microsoft
Exchange and Symantec AntiVirus/Filtering for Microsoft Exchange 2000 |
| Praetor for Microsoft Exchange in, out and
quarantine directories |
not automatically excluded; see
Praetor for Microsoft Exchange |
| Sophos Anti-Virus temporary directories and infected files "Action" directory |
4.0; see Sophos Anti-Virus |
| Symantec Shared application virus
definition files directory |
not automatically excluded; see
Symantec Shared Application Files |
| Trend Micro ServerProtect temporary and virus directories |
4.0; see Trend Micro ServerProtect |
| Trend Micro Virus Control System agent temporary directory |
4.0; see Trend Micro Virus Control System Agent |
