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How to Exclude Files and Folders from Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) Backups

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I've been using Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) to create backups of my files and folders. However, I've encountered a situation :

I need to exclude specific files and folders from Microsoft built-in Volume shadow Copy to save storage space and time. Since VSS is enabled for the drive, there are few unwanted folder / files that are being backed up by VSS and If I delete them all other shadow copies of other files (of previous versions) might be lost.

Here are a few details about my setup:

Operating System: Windows Server 2012 R2 Volume Shadow Copy: Provider name: 'Microsoft File Share Shadow Copy provider' Provider type: Fileshare Version: 1.0.0.1

Provider name: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0' Provider type: System Version: 1.0.0.7

I would appreciate it if someone could walk me through the process of excluding files and folders from VSS backups. What are the steps involved, and are there any best practices I should be aware of?.

I did search in Google and found some articles, but none of them solved my issue.

Here are few links that I have gone through.

This link provides FilesNotToSnapshot registry key can be used to exclude files but it is developers specific.

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