How to include a list of ALL files in my backup?

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I’m looking for a way to include a list of ALL files on my computer in my backups.
Something along the line of tree /f command.
I’m backing up only a subset of all files which I consider critical.
Other files I can recover from other sources(such as redownload from the internet).
The issue is that if I have a catastrophic failure of my system and I lose everything, I want to be able to look at the list of everything I had(not just what I backed up) to use as a reference in restoring my files.

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I’m not aware of an internal feature, but you can call a script to write a text file to your source which will then get backed up. This batch script will create a FolderTree.txt file in each root directory.

@ECHO OFF
SET OPERATIONNAME=%DUPLICATI__OPERATIONNAME%
IF NOT "%OPERATIONNAME%"=="Backup" EXIT /B 0
SET List=%DUPLICATI__LOCALPATH%
:NextItem
IF "%List%" == "" GOTO LoopEnd
FOR /F "tokens=1* delims=;" %%a IN ("%List%") DO (
	TREE "%%a." /F /A > "%%a.\FolderTree.txt"
    SET List=%%b
)
goto NextItem
:LoopEnd

To use it, copy the text above into c:\work\CreateFileIndex.bat and pass it as an argument to the --run-script-before option. You can find it in the GUI in Step 5 (Options) under Advanced Options > Run Script.

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Another idea is to install Everything (as a service) and periodically export a file list. It is a fancy offline index that you can later browse and search. You can write a script and call it from Duplicati or Task Scheduler. Either way, be sure to back up the output.

“C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe” -create-file-list c:\work\c.efu c:\

Seems buggy right now but might work in the future.

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Everything is nice idea, thanks

I’m using custom PowerShell script to create csv every day - something like this

Or Disk Space Manager software at its best: TreeSize Professional can create nice XML lists of files and visualize them…or compare them to actual state

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Why do you say it’s buggy? What doesn’t work?

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It did not work with some paths like c:\ and c:\windows. If you get an .efu file you’re fine.