About Computer selection lists

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

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.

Computer selection list procedures

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 excludes

     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

     Using wildcards in Computer selection lists