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WD Backup: Files Excluded


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Acronis True Image for Western Digital can be used instead.
Answer ID 6550: Install and Uninstall Acronis True Image for Western Digital on Windows.

Download of this software provides a 5-year license to use it with your compatible drive. This software is available only under a limited time offer and must be redeemed by download and install within 90 days of purchase or by December 31, 2025, whichever is earlier. This offer may not be combined with other offers and is subject to change. Terms and conditions apply.

Use of this software requires download and installation to a system connected to at least one of the compatible Western Digital (WD, SanDisk, G-Technology) storage products. When using with the My Cloud NAS products, the software must be running from an operating system on the same local network.

Acronis True Image for Western Digital will only backup files and folders physically stored on the local drive. It will not backup or pull data hosted remotely in Cloud Services such as Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, OneDrive.


WD Backup will back up almost everything in the source computer or hard drive on to a destination hard drive when a backup job is created. WD Backup will not backup the file types listed below:

Empty folders


Attributes:

  • reparsePoint
  • temporary

Names that include:

  • \AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows
  • [CommonApplicationData]\Western Digital\
  • [CommonApplicationData]\Microsoft\Windows\Caches\
  • config.msi
  • MSOCache
  • ntuser.dat
  • ntuser.ini
  • [RecycleBin]
  • $recycle.bin
  • UPPS.bin
  • recycler
  • [Root]\Drivers\
  • [Root]\Temp\
  • System Volume Information
  • WD Backup.swstor
  • .WD Hidden Items
  • WD SmartWare.swstor
  • [Windows]

Extensions:

  • .ds_store
  • .temp
  • .tmp
  • .wdsync

Start Values:

  • ~

End Values:

  • desktop.ini
  • .dropbox
  • .dropbox.attr
  • hiberfil.sys
  • -journal
  • pagefile.sys
  • thumbs.db
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Answer ID 16747
Published 08/20/2018 02:22 AM
Updated 05/18/2022 01:50 PM

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