Ransomware attackers specifically target and attempt to destroy backup systems to increase the probability of payment. Hardening your system is critical. Please ensure you have reviewed your platform security using the Security Hardening Checklist
Cohesity

COHESITY Documentation

Explore our documentation to get started, discover products & new features, access troubleshooting guides, register sources, platforms support.

Products
Data Security Alliance
Visit Cohesity.com
Demos
Support
Blogs
Developers
Partner Portals
Cohesity Community
© 2026 Cohesity, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Terms of Use|
Privacy Policy|
Legal|
  1. Home
  2. NetBackup™ for Microsoft Exchange Server Administrator's Guide
  3. Configuring Exchange backup policies (non-VMware)
  4. About configuring a backup policy for Exchange Server
  5. Adding backup selections to an Exchange policy
  6. About excluding Exchange items from backups
NetBackup™ for Microsoft Exchange Server Administrator's Guide

About excluding Exchange items from backups

If you do not want to back up certain databases, you can create an exclude list. When NetBackup runs a NetBackup for Exchange backup policy, NetBackup ignores the items that appear in the exclude list.

For more information on how to create an exclude list see one of the following:

  • See Configuring exclude lists for Exchange clients.

  • NetBackup Web UI Administrator's Guide

NetBackup excludes certain files and directories by default. These default exclusions always appear in the exclude list.

You can exclude specific databases from a backup, both for the databases that exist in a DAG or on a standalone Exchange server. You can specify the exclude list for all policies or for a specific policy or schedule.

Table: Example Exchange entries in an exclude list provides an example of the Exchange entries that you can add to an exclude list.

Table: Example Exchange entries in an exclude list

This entry ...

excludes ...

Microsoft Information Store:\Database2

The database named Database2.

You can use the same Microsoft information Store:\ directive for both DAG and standalone databases.

Note that the entry Microsoft Exchange Database Availability Groups:\Database 2 is an invalid exclude entry.

More Information

Configuring exclude lists for Exchange clients

Feedback

Was this page helpful?
Previous

Using wildcards in an Exchange backup selections list

Next

Configuring exclude lists for Exchange clients

Feedback

Was this page helpful?