I can't seem to find my ignore rules

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Hello, It’s a bit strange, In my snapshots of D:\, directories starting with repository_ in KopiaUI_Portable\repositories\cache\ are empty.
So most of the Kopia Cache files are excluded, but I can’t figure out where I set those exclusion rules. Is this a built-in exclusion rule?

I searched the entire hard drive and there is no file named .kopiaignore

❯  kopia.exe policy show D:\
Policy for xx@xxxx:D:\:

Retention:
  Annual snapshots:                     0   inherited from (global)
  Monthly snapshots:                    0   inherited from (global)
  Weekly snapshots:                     4   inherited from (global)
  Daily snapshots:                      7   inherited from (global)
  Hourly snapshots:                     0   inherited from (global)
  Latest snapshots:                     7   inherited from (global)
  Ignore identical snapshots:        true   inherited from (global)

Files policy:
  Ignore cache directories:          true   inherited from (global)
  No ignore rules:
  Read ignore rules from files:             inherited from (global)
    .kopiaignore
  Scan one filesystem only:         false   inherited from (global)

Error handling policy:
  Ignore file read errors:           true   inherited from (global)
  Ignore directory read errors:      true   inherited from (global)
  Ignore unknown types:              true   inherited from (global)

Scheduling policy:
  Scheduled snapshots:
    None.
  Manual snapshot:                  false   inherited from (global)

Uploads:
  Max parallel snapshots (server/UI):   1   inherited from (global)
  Max parallel file reads:              -   inherited from (global)
  Parallel upload above size:      2.1 GB   inherited from (global)

Compression:
  Compressor:                  s2-default   inherited from (global)
  Compress files regardless of extensions.
  Compress files of all sizes.

No actions defined.

OS-level snapshot support:
  Volume Shadow Copy:              always   inherited from (global)

Logging details (0-none, 10-maximum):
  Directory snapshotted:                5   inherited from (global)
  Directory ignored:                    5   inherited from (global)
  Entry snapshotted:                    0   inherited from (global)
  Entry ignored:                        5   inherited from (global)
  Entry cache hit:                      0   inherited from (global)
  Entry cache miss:                     0   inherited from (global)

❯  kopia.exe  policy show --global
Policy for (global):

Retention:
  Annual snapshots:                     0   (defined for this target)
  Monthly snapshots:                    0   (defined for this target)
  Weekly snapshots:                     4   (defined for this target)
  Daily snapshots:                      7   (defined for this target)
  Hourly snapshots:                     0   (defined for this target)
  Latest snapshots:                     7   (defined for this target)
  Ignore identical snapshots:        true   (defined for this target)

Files policy:
  Ignore cache directories:          true   (defined for this target)
  No ignore rules:
  Read ignore rules from files:             (defined for this target)
    .kopiaignore
  Scan one filesystem only:         false   (defined for this target)

Error handling policy:
  Ignore file read errors:           true   (defined for this target)
  Ignore directory read errors:      true   (defined for this target)
  Ignore unknown types:              true   (defined for this target)

Scheduling policy:
  Scheduled snapshots:
    None.
  Manual snapshot:                  false   (defined for this target)

Uploads:
  Max parallel snapshots (server/UI):   1   (defined for this target)
  Max parallel file reads:              -   (defined for this target)
  Parallel upload above size:      2.1 GB   (defined for this target)

Compression:
  Compressor:                  s2-default   (defined for this target)
  Compress files regardless of extensions.
  Compress files of all sizes.

No actions defined.

OS-level snapshot support:
  Volume Shadow Copy:              always   (defined for this target)

Logging details (0-none, 10-maximum):
  Directory snapshotted:                5   (defined for this target)
  Directory ignored:                    5   (defined for this target)
  Entry snapshotted:                    0   (defined for this target)
  Entry ignored:                        5   (defined for this target)
  Entry cache hit:                      0   (defined for this target)
  Entry cache miss:                     0   (defined for this target)
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Can you explain it? It is not really clear what you are doing here.

You are backing up drive D: using kopia to some repository. And what is the problem? Some data is not included in snapshots? Or you are talking about some kopia cache being empty?

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I’m backing up drive D: using kopia to a repository. And some data is not included in the snapshots. These data are Kopia cache files located in directories that start with repository_ within the KopiaUI_Portable\repositories\cache\ folder.

These directories are the cache files directies specified by the --cache-directory parameter of the repository create command.

I originally prepared a few screenshots, but I couldn’t post them due to forum permission restrictions.

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The backslash needs to be escaped.

kopia.exe policy show D:\\
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I tried it out, kopia.exe policy show D:\ is the same as kopia.exe policy show D:\\ when using Windows Terminal

Regarding the main post, my guess is that Kopia’s built-in rules exclude its own cache files

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I think kopia (and many other programs - backup, tar etc.) respects CACHEDIR.TAG which is always added to kopia cache. It is configurable and you have it set to true:

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You are right, I am blind.