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Veeam Agent Management Guide

File Indexing

To specify file indexing options:

  1. At the Guest Processing step of the wizard, select the Enable guest file system indexing check box.
  2. Click Indexing.
  3. In the displayed list, select the protection group or individual computer and click Edit.

To define custom settings for a computer added as a part of a protection group, you must include the computer to the list as a standalone object. To do this, click Add and choose the computer whose settings you want to customize. Then select the computer in the list and define the necessary settings.

  1. In the Linux Indexing Settings window, specify the indexing scope:
  • Select Index everything if you want to index all files within the backup scope that you have specified at the Backup mode step of the wizard. Veeam Agent for Linux will index all files that reside:
  • on the protected computer OS (for entire computer backup)
  • on the volumes that you have specified for backup (for volume-level backup)
  • in the directories that you have specified for backup (for file-level backup)
  • Select Index everything except if you want to index all files on your computer OS except those defined in the list. By default, system directories /cdrom, /dev, /media, /mnt, /proc, /tmp and /lost+found are excluded from indexing. You can add or delete folders using the Add and Remove buttons on the right.

To reset the list of folders to its initial state, click Default.

  • Select Index only following folders to define directories that you want to index. You can add or delete directories to index using the Add and Remove buttons on the right.

File Indexing 

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