Windows 10: Windows 10 File History backup fails for every directory: "Directory is not backed up...

Appears to be problem reported as "Your data is not yet backed up"
Windows 10 Home version 1803 current as of 7/11/2018.
Since application of
KB4284848 on 7/05/2018
File History has stopped working. It no longer backs up any directories.
The Error log message is "Directory id not backed up because it is a reparse point."

After the failure,
1) I ran DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /Restorehealth
"The operation completed successfully"
2) Then I ran sfc /scannow
"Windows Resource Protection Aid did not find any intergrity violations"
3) Then, again, I ran DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /Restorehealth
"The operation completed successfully"
4) Then I rebooted again
5) Windows Settings > Update & Security > Backup > more options > File History backup options.
Starting status is "Your data is not yet backed up"
Select "Back up now"
Briefly I get the message "Backing up your data"
Then the status returns to "Your data is not yet backed up":
6) Control Panel > System aand Security > File History > Advanced settings >
Open File History event logs to view recent events or errors recorded in
Microosoft-Windows-FileHistory-Engine/File History backup log
Final message is Error Event ID 201
Unable to scan user libraries for changes and perform backup of modified files for configuration C:\Users\ben\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\FileHistory\Configuration\Conf "
Preceding messages are all Warning Event ID 106: for example,
Directory was not backed up because it is a reparse point
C:\Users\ben\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\/Net Cachje\Low\Content.IE5
Among the 60 or so failed directories are
C:|Users\ben\My Documents
C:\Users\ben\Local Settings
C:\Users\ben\Cookies
C:\Users\ben\Application Data


How would a "reparse point" have been created,
and how do I delete it?
Or is the warning message incorrect?

:)

 

Cannot remove directories from "included directories" list of file history windows 10 feature.

Hi,

I have the problem related to file history on windows 10.

I recently updated to windows 10. And I liked the idea to be able to store file history of my documents every hour (instead of once a day). So I want to enable this feature.

But the problem is that I do not want to use standard directories being saved. By default those are:

- My home directory

- All subdirectories of my home directory.

- All _my_ libraries

- All public libraries (music, pictures etc.)

I should say, that I'm a developer and I have lots of things in my home directories and in some library directories, which I do not want to backup. What I want is to save the content of only one directory: "D:\docs".

Then, what I did is following:

- I selected the network location to store my files.

- I turned on the file history

=> I can see list of all directories, which are _included_ and _excluded_ from backup.

- I manually removed all the directories except of one of them (D:\docs) from the _excluded_ list.

- I started the backup

=>> And then I see, that all those library directories, which I've just removed from the list, are back and my backup takes several Gb instead of hundred Mb.

So, I disabled file history, removed all the files from network location, cleaned up the list of directories _included_ into backup once again. And enabled the file history again. And started the backup.

=>>> All the library directories are back to the "included directories" list??? What is this? I removed them explicitly. I don't want them to be there.

Question: How can I remove certain directories of my choice from the "file history" feature of windows 10?

Notice: I did not try to explicitly use _excluded_ directories list... but it is really not convenient. I have, probably, more than 50 directories included by windows by default. So I have to find them all manually and add to the second list? Besides, I
don't really know if it works...

 

Which directories does File History backup?

I have been trying to setup File History on two Windows 10 PCs but so far I am baffled as to just what Windows 10 is doing.

To give you one example I set up File History for the first time and use the default settings. It appears that File History chooses to back up some directories from the Public User (but not all), some (different) directories from the active User, no directories
from other Users in the USER high level folder (e.g. Administrator, Guest, Default.Migrated etc) and then some random directories not contained in the above ones - these latter directories seem to be mainly ones containing jpeg pictures, however other directories
containing many more jpeg, tiff etc picture files are ignored. What algorithm is File History using to decide which directories to back up?

 

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