Windows 10: Does System Drives Back up Include OneDrive Folder

I Keep Backup of my System Drives With Macrium. My OneDrive Folder is in Default place and size is 10 GB. If Backup also include this Folder, then it means I am wasting time and space to unnecessary Backup this because I already have these files in cloud.

In this scenario, Is it not advisable to permanently move my OneDrive Folder to another Partition so that my Backup size will be small and will take less time.

Please guide.

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Backing Up OneDrive Folder with File History

I am backing two computers - a desktop and a laptop, both running Windows 10 - to an external hard drive via File History. On each computer, the majority of our files are in a OneDrive folder, so I have included OneDrive on the list of folders to back
up. On the desktop, all subfolders in the OneDrive folder back up just fine (Erika's Pictures, Erika's Music, Erika's Documents). On the laptop, Peter's Music and Peter's Documents back up, but Peter's Pictures does not. To get it to back up, I have to manually,
separately, add it to the list of folders that File History includes. Obviously, this is easy enough to do, but I don't understand why it is happening or how to fix it. Any ideas? Thank you.

 

Windows "file history" feature

Hello Palmer,

Thank you for posting your concern in Microsoft community and welcome to the Windows 10 Family.

File History does not cover all the folders or entire drives. It helps to back up all default and custom Libraries (including Public Folders), plus Contacts, Desktop and Favorites folders. Your only way to include other folders in Windows 8 and 8.1
is to create your own custom Libraries. Windows 10 allows adding folders to File History via the Modern UI/Metro user interface.

Furthermore, File History does not back up any files or folders that use EFS (Encrypting File System). You might want to use BitLocker or TrueCrypt's system drive encryption for added security.

In Windows 10, File History does not back up items in your OneDrive (aka SkyDrive) folder unless they are made available offline.

File History Service depends on Windows Search service, so the latter must be enabled and running for File History to function properly.

Hope the above information is helpful. If you need further information, feel free to write to us and we would be happy to help you.

Thank you.

 

Can't you just specifically remove the OneDrive folder from the backup routine?

 

That's what I have done.

 

I don't know whether Macrium free has this facility or not. I will have to find out.

 

Thanks