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Comments on the archive that is specified in the --arc (p. 79) parameter. To view comments on

archives, use the list archives (p. 40) command with the -a parameter.

backup_comment

--backup_comment=<comments>

Comments on the backup that is specified in the --backup (p. 80) parameter. To view comments on

backups, use the list backups (p. 40) command.

3.6.5 copy_only

--copy_only

The parameter is used with the backup exchange_database (p. 32) command only if the

--backuptype (p. 87) parameter value is full.

The copy-only backup method allows creating full backups without truncating the transaction log

files. The method can be used to obtain a full backup without interrupting other ongoing backups.

The copy-only backups can be easily stored off-site for testing, analysis or other purposes.

The parameter cannot be used together with the --express (p. 89) parameter.

3.6.6 exclude

Disk-level and file-level backups

The following four parameters are used with the backup disk (p. 19), backup file (p. 24), and

backup vm (p. 28) commands.

exclude_names

--exclude_names=<names>

Files and folders to be excluded from the backup. For example,

c:\pagefile.sys,c:\hiberfil.sys.

exclude_mask

--exclude_mask=<masks>

Masks to select files to be excluded from the backup. For more details, see the description of the

exclude (p. 102) parameter used in the recover file command.

exclude_system

--exclude_system

In file systems that are supported by Windows, type this parameter to skip files and folders with the

System attribute. If a folder has the System attribute, all of its contents (including files that do not

have the System attribute) will be excluded.

exclude_hidden

--exclude_hidden