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Drive letters can be associated with GeoDrive cloud drives to represent the local disk cache. When adding a GeoDrive drive, the registry system parameters will automatically exclude the drives mapped to an ECS bucket. If your backup application does not read the parameter specified in the registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore\FilesNotToBackup) then it is advised to exclude the folders used by GeoDrive within your backup application.
Dell Technologies recommends excluding files managed by GeoDrive from your Windows backups. The reasons are: