Selection filters
Selection filters allow users to include and/or exclude files from a backup run. To use selection filters you must be using Syncrify 1.4 or above.
Following steps demonstrate how to enable selection filters.
- Start Syncrify client
- Select the desired profile
- Highlight a top-level folder name. IMPORTANT: Selection filters can only be applied to top-level folders. Refer to the image below
- Click the right mouse button to bring up a pop-up menu and select Selection filter
- This opens up another screen where you can type a filter.
Rules for specifying filters
- Selection filters accept wildcard characters just like the dir or ls command on your operating system. An asterisk (*) represent one or more characters and a question mark (?) represents one character.
- Multiple rules can be separated by a pipe (|) character.
Examples
Example 1 - Backing up only images
*.jpg|*.gif|*.png|*.bmp
This will cause Syncrify to backup only image files. Other files in the folder will be skipped.
Example 2 - Exclusion filter
^*.tmp|^*.bak|^*.cvs
This will copy every file but *.tmp, *.bak, and *.cvs
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