Speaking of Acronis Backups ... quick question

[lbeachmike]

Is it perfectly safe to exclude hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys from my full backups? That chops off 5 gig of data to backup. Presumably, Windows creates new ones as needed, correct?

Thanks.

Mike

[Ol'Tunzafun]

Acronis excludes these two files by default as a space-saving measure. It does, however, include a placeholder for the files to enable Windows to recreate them easily upon restore.

[lbeachmike]

Ah - that's good to know, and probably explains why my images have always been remarkably compact.

Is this documented? And is this definitely true of the current version? I ask because it provides file exclusion options but I don't see those files shown by default.

[Midknyte]

From the TI10 user guide:

Acronis True Image Home stores only those hard disk parts that contain data (for supported
file systems). Further, it does not back up swap file information (pagefile.sys under Windows
NT/2000/XP) and hiberfil.sys (a file that keeps RAM contents when the computer goes into
hibernation). This reduces image size and speeds up image creation and restoration.

[Ol'Tunzafun]

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=153938

[Ol'Tunzafun]

From the TI-11 manual:

By default, Acronis True Image Home stores only those hard disk parts that contain data (for
supported file systems). Further, it does not back up swap file information (pagefile.sys
under Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista) and hiberfil.sys (a file that keeps RAM contents when the
computer goes into hibernation). This reduces image size and speeds up image creation and
restoration. However, you might use the Create an image using the sector-by-sector
approach option that lets you include all of the sectors of a hard disk in an image.

[lbeachmike]

Thanks guys