SMTP Mailroot Folder

To avoid unnecessarily high data change rates and excessive use of network bandwidth, the SMTP Mailroot folder and its subfolders need to be excluded from the LiveVault Online Backup Service backup. The SMTP Mailroot folder is used for SMTP message processing.

LiveVault Online Backup Service Agent version 4.0 and later automatically excludes the SMTP Mailroot folder and its subfolders. If you are running an earlier Agent version, you must manually create the exclusion. Also, if your computer is configured to have Mailroot in a location other than the default (as specified below), then you need to manually configure this exclusion.

By default, the Mailroot folder is located under Inetpub at the same level as wwwroot:

<drive>:\Inetpub\Mailroot

LiveVault Online Backup Service checks the following registry key to see if wwwroot is configured:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\INetStp value PathWWWRoot

If this path is found, LiveVault Online Backup Service changes of the last part of the path (for example, C:\Inetpub\wwwroot) to Mailroot (for example, C:\Inetpub\Mailroot) and looks for the resulting path. If the path is found, LiveVault Online Backup Service creates the exclusion, for example:

Exclude C:\Inetpub\Mailroot\* (plus subdirectories)

In the tree view on the Files to Backup tab, you will see the icon for the automatically excluded directory and subdirectories. Parent directories of the automatically excluded directory are marked in MyLiveVault with one of the "partially excluded" icons, either (if a parent directory is selected), or (if a parent directory is not selected).

Related Information

Excluding Files from Backup
Automatic and Recommended Backup Exclusions
IIS Web Server Backup Configuration