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Dell EMC Avamar for Windows Servers 19.7 User Guide

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Skipped files

The Windows File System plug-in uses Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service to perform backups. The backups include open files because Avamar backs up the data from the Shadow Copy volume instead of the original volume. However, according to Microsoft best practices, Avamar skips the files in the following table by default.

Table 1. Files skipped in Windows file system backups
Operating system Files skipped by default Comments
All Windows Files listed in the FilesNotToBackup registry for the system and current user The skipped files include operating system files that are necessary to restore the system.
All Windows Temporary Internet Files You can enable backup of these files through special flags.
All Windows Outlook 2003 temporary cache files You can enable backup of these files through special flags.
Windows 7 or later All Syscache.hve* files under System Volume information These additional files do not appear in the FilesNotToBackup registry, but Microsoft indicates that backups should skip them.
Windows 7 or later All .vhd and .vhdx files for a mounted Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Back up the VHD file system, not the .vhd file.
Windows Server 2019, 2016, or 2012 All .vhd and .vhdx files on file shares on clustered file servers Explicitly select the VHD file for backup, and use the Windows Cluster File Server plug-in. If you select only the parent folder or the file server for the VHD file, then the backup skips the VHD file.

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