Tell HN: Crashplan Business excludes some of your data
Important Product Update
The CrashPlan for Small Business Code42 app is intended to back up your user’s business files (pictures, music, documents, etc.), not your operating system or applications. For this reason, we have always recommended you not include applications or large files in your selection as they may not backup correctly. We have allowed you to back those things up, but beginning in May 2019, we are making some additional changes to our file exclusions and will be disallowing the backup of applications, VM image files, and some backup files.
After this change is applied, you will likely see your file selection and backup archive size go down and benefit from faster restores, syncs, and backups. The new excludes are listed below and a full list of excludes can be found here[0].
Applications: /Users/<username>/Applications, /Applications/, /Program Files/, /Program Files (x86)/ VM image files: .hdd, .hds, .pvm, .pvs, .vdi, .vfd, .vhd, .vmc, .vmdk, .vmem, .vmsd, .vmsn, .vmss, .vmtm, .vmwarevm, .vmx, .vmxf, .vsv, .nvram, .vud, .xva Backup files: .bck, .bkf Other files: .tmp, .part, .rbf, .tib, .sparseimage
[0] https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/6/Troubleshooting/What_is_not_backing_up