Selection lists define items to include or exclude from the backup. Before running a one-time backup or setting up a schedule, you can choose to specify selected volumes and files using include and exclude selection lists.
If you create a schedule with selection lists and there are already full backups on the system for its client, you must run new fulls before the schedule runs to ensure data consistency.
Note: Selection lists are not used for bare metal backups.
See the following table for a description of selection list types. For examples, see Using selection lists.
Selection list type |
Description |
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Include |
Defines items to include in a file-level backup. Note the following: • For the selective backup type - Supported for all clients. Include is required for selective backups. • For full, differential, and incremental backup types - Supported for Windows clients, agent 7.2 or higher. |
Exclude |
Defines items to omit from a full, differential, or incremental backup. In addition, an exclude list can be applied to define a subset of included files to omit. See Additional considerations for Linux exclusions if applying exclusions to a Linux client. |
Any |
On the Enterprise > Backup > Schedule Backup tab, used to include specified files when applied to the Inclusions column or to exclude specified files when applied to the Exclusions column. |
The following selection list procedures are described in this section:
• To specify includes for full, differential, and incremental backups
• To specify includes for the selective backup type
• To specify an include and exclude for Windows clients
• To add selection patterns to a Computer selection list
• To remove selection patterns from a Computer selection list