Full disk backup ignores exclude filters
Exclude filters have no effect on a full-disk backup, so the backup grows to hundreds of gigabytes despite excluding large folders.
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4 public reports · first reported 22 September 2026 · last reported 23 September 2026
What's going wrong
A user creating a full-disk backup added a filter to skip a large data folder, expecting the filter to apply as documented.
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