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Chaging include folders later

Asked by rakeshxp

I have enabled weekly backup of couple of folders. My question is that is it possible to add/remove folders to backup later? Would that cause only increments to be saved OR performs a full backup ?

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Best Michael Terry (mterry) said : 		#1

If you remove folders from the backup today, they will not be backed up next time (e.g. date X is the next backup date). They will not be restored if you later performed a restore from a date later than X. They will still be restored if you restore from a date before X.

If you add a folder, they will be backed up next time. Similarly, the folder will not be available in restores from before X but will be in restores after X.

i.e. it will work as expected.

You also asked whether it will cleverly do incrementals vs. full backup? It will incrementally include new folders, but since they are new, it will need to upload their entire contents as a starting position. So in a sense its a little mini-full-backup. But the rest of your folders will still be incremental.

If you remove folders, but later re-include them, you will have to fully upload their contents again (i.e. it doesn't remember that you had those folders there before). Which is not ideal, but there you are.

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rakeshxp (rakesh) said : 		#2

Thanks! That answers my question.