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 (agent 7.2 or higher) and Linux (agent 8.0 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 excludes  if applying exclusions to a Linux client.

Computer selection list procedures

The following selection list procedures are described in this section:

     To specify includes for the selective backup type

     To specify includes for full, differential, and incremental backups of Windows and Linux clients, see:

   Windows selection lists

   Linux selection lists

     To specify excludes

     To add selection patterns to a Computer selection list

     To remove selection patterns from a Computer selection list

     Using wildcards in Computer selection lists