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OSSV Exclude System Volume information

psvw — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 19:38:44 GMT

Hello,

I'm fairly new to Netapp. I have a win2012server in a remote office I am backing up with OSSV. It is currently backing up Dedup .ccc files from D:\System Volume Information\dedup\chunkstore. I wish to exclude this directory as it makes no sense to backup. I have opened up the file-exclude text file from: C:\Program Files\netapp\snapvault\etc. I have added: D:\System Volume Information\ to the exlcude list. Is there anything else I need to perform other then restarting the service for this change to take affect?

Regards,

Re: OSSV Exclude System Volume information

Sahana — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 05:37:53 GMT

Hi,

DATA EXCLUSIONS

OSSV can exclude certain data from backup. The following files on the OSSV host can be populated to exclude specific data:

\etc\file-exclude.txt

\etc\path-exclude.txt

\etc\file-system-exclude.txt

The file-exclude.txt and path-exclude.txt files accept wildcards. The file-system-exclude.txt file does not.

Note: The file-system-exclude.txt file is not available on Windows or AIX hosts.

Refer http://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-3466.pdf page 9

Re: OSSV Exclude System Volume information

raj_shrivastava11 — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 11:23:00 GMT

Hi,

If you wish to exclude entire directly, u should add a entry in Pathexluce.txt file instead of Fileexclude.txt.

Fileexclude.txt is for specific file exclusions.

Hope this helps

Raj