Some users are starting to run into warnings related to Duplicati trying to back up integrated cloud drives that use “files on-demand” (so basically a local stub points to the actual file that lives in the cloud). [image] Warning regarding VolumeShadowCopy Support You must…

I voted for the use a setting, but actually my standard would be Pull down the full file if metadata suggest (e.g. file time changed) or file isn’t in backup yet Backup the file Restore the on-demand flag so local space is freed up again.

Hi @tomsedi , welcome to the forum - and thanks for the input!

Hi @JonMikelV , I think the user should choose what is best for his individual situation. The most usual setting might be to ignore the stubs. That’s because the user does already makes the decision to download or not to download in OneDrive. So not downloading a folder via OneDrive and then pulli…

See GitHub Duplicati downloads OneDrive online only files #3411 for a possible way to ignore the stubs or not per user preference, using –exclude-files-attributes . Testing has not yet been done, so anyone feel free to try.

I would be inclined to back up the full file (though perhaps with a warning). The users already have an option; exclude the directories that are connected to the cloud. I don’t think backing up the stub does anybody much good (in what cases would restoring it be useful? That the cloud solution wou…

cross posting from above, doesn’t seem like exclude-file-attributes with Offline worked (files still download during duplicati run)

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