Synametrics Technologies

I am trying to avoid picking up temp files from Microsoft office such as ~$foo.xlsx, and also any other files that begin with tilda (~) and have an .xar extension. At the top level of a tree, I used a Selection Filter: ^~$*.*|^~.xar However, Syncrify is still backing up these files. Is my filter not correct?

Same here but with the map $RECYCLE.BIN. It seems that Syncrify Selection Filter has an problem with excluding hidden files/directories.

As i back up the root of an data disk i get log files claiming to have failed because of the 600+ $RECYCLE.BIN files that cannot be backupped.

Frank,

A $ is a special character and must be escaped. For example, if you want to exclude $RECYCLE.BIN, you must use the following value for selection filter.

^\$RECYCLE.BIN/

The backslash before $ is used to escape special characters and a slash at the end signifies a folder name.

Thanks for the extreme fast reply. Í will change the selection filter and will report asap if it works. :)

Well,

 

i've tested it en it works like a charme :) I'm very pleased at last my backuped files now exceed the error files . Thanks for the tip it seems this was no bug after all.

 

Although i realise that there is NO bug i go on in this thread beacuse of the mentioned special caracters. Are there any special characters i need to use wehen excluding a directory with a space in it ? I've tried excluding a dir with command  ^User Pinned/ but then no files get synced at all. And does er needs to be a space between the Pipe character ?

Frankky,

There is no escape character for a space. Could you please send us an email to support@synametrics.com with your ProfileName.Syncrify file. We tried specifying a space in the selection filter on our end but it worked as expected. Using your profile will try to recreate this problem on our end.

Regards,

Synametrics Support