The invention discloses a block-level additional
backup method and
system supporting file exclusion, and relates to the technical field of data
backup and
recovery, and the method comprises the following steps: deploying and initializing a
file system filter driver; configuring an exclusion file rule, and creating an initial exclusion
bitmap; dynamically monitoring the change of the storage space of the excluded file; in cooperation with a block-level
backup driver, backup
data filtering is achieved; according to the method, a
file system sensing layer is introduced into a block-level backup process, data blocks corresponding to files located in an exclusion
list can be accurately recognized before and after backup, the data blocks are skipped in a backup
data set, and the data blocks in the backup
data set are subjected to consistency
verification and exclusion
bitmap maintenance. According to the method, transmission and storage of
invalid data are eliminated from the source, particularly for data which are written frequently but have no reserved value, the reduction effect of the backup data volume is particularly remarkable, and consistency
processing is synchronously carried out on
file system metadata while specified file data blocks are eliminated.