Windows 10: Exclude folders from Shadow Copy

Hi,Is there any possible way to exclude certain folders from Shadow Copy? Like OneDrive folder?Certain folders, such as OneDrive is not necessary to include and take up file size in Shadow Copy, if we are able to exclude this we would be able to go further back in time within folders we actually need to check previous versions on.I've tried to add certain areas in the FilesNotToBackup & FilesNotToSnapshot in regedit, and found a note in the Documentation that it does not actually remove this from Shadow Copy. Is there other options here? Only suggestion i found somewhere was to make a scri

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Exclude backups (Volume Shadow Copy) from Windows Defender

Recently I setup a backup for some folders. Today I found out that windows defender won't let the backup service do its job.

But how do I exclude the backup's shadow copy from windows defender?

It's not like I can point it to a file or folder and say "Don't check here".

Heck I tried excluding the entire backup drive, with no success.

And if I exclude .exes I might as well disable defender entirely.

 

Windows Defender incorrectly reports threat in Volume Shadow Copy

I think you misread my question.

I did what you suggest immediately after I first downloaded the file.

The problem is NOT that the file itself gets flagged -- it does not as it is in the exclusions list.

The problem is that the exclusions list applies to the absolute path to the file.

What Windows Defender is complaining about is the COPY of the file that is present in the Volume Shadow Copy, NOT the original file.

There appears to be no way to tell Windows Defender to ignore the COPY of the file in the Volume Shadow Copy. Then, every time my backup program (Retrospect) runs, Windows Defender detects the file IN THE VOLUME SHADOW COPY and complains.

 

VSS (Shadow Copy)

We are using Windows 10 1703 with shadow copy enabled. For some reason on my own PC I am able to right click on a folder and see "Previous Versions" however for everyone else the list is empty. I can see the Volume Shadow Copy service does start up and run
however still do not see any folders in previous versions. Has anyone come across this before? We are not blocking or hiding the list.

On one of the computers the event log shows:

General

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine QueryFullProcessImageNameW. hr = 0x80070006, The handle is invalid.

Operation:

Executing Asynchronous Operation

Context:

Current State: DoSnapshotSet

Details


- System

- Provider

[ Name] VSS

- EventID 8193

[ Qualifiers] 0

Level 2

Task 0

Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2017-10-17T20:53:33.139996900Z

EventRecordID 8018

Channel Application

Computer

Security

- EventData

QueryFullProcessImageNameW

0x80070006, The handle is invalid.

Operation: Executing Asynchronous Operation Context: Current State: DoSnapshotSet

2D20436F64653A20534543534543524330303030303537392D2043616C6C3A20534543534543524330303030303536332D205049443A202030303031343637322D205449443A202030303031343432382D20434D443A2020433A5C57494E444F57535C73797374656D33325C76737376632E6578652020202D20557365723A204E616D653A204E5420415554484F524954595C53595354454D2C205349443A532D312D352D313820

On other computers there are no errors but the previous versions list is still empty on those.