586 - ESE Agent inclusion/exclusion hierarchy

Modified on Tue, 5 Aug at 1:11 PM

Users and Administrators can include or exclude (by profiling) certain files and/folders for backup.

The following table shows the order in which inclusions or exclusions take precedence (1 being the most important, 7 the least):

Order	Source	Purpose	Example
1	Built-in exclusion	Specified by: a) Operating system b) Data Management Agent (Cannot be changed)	Files set in the Windows registry SE and DL installation folders. ESE's ProgramData/Data and ProgramData/tasks folders
2	Feature exclusion	Determined by the feature in the Agent - for ESE only. (Cannot be changed)	MS SQL database files Windows Image Backup files
3	Feature inclusion		MS SQL database files Windows Image Backup files
4	Profiled exclusion	Set in SP Console	*.mp3 My Music C:\Windows
5	Profiled inclusion	Set in SP Console	Filter example: *.docx Specification example: C:\Folder\
6	Agent exclusion	Global exclusions, filters, and direct exclusions (Set by user)	.jpg My Videos C:\Data C:\Folder\.mp3
7	Agent inclusion	Filters and direct inclusions (Set by user)	C:\Users\john\Documents C:\Folder\*.doc

Notes:

An exclusion always takes precedence over an inclusion from the same source.
Only these exclusions and inclusions can be changed:
- those set in the Console through Profiling (levels 4 and 5 by Administrator only)
- those set in the Agent (levels 6 and 7)