I use disk partitioning to logically separate my files. This helps reduce the sizes of my backups and excludes system files from indexing/searching. For exampl

I use disk partitioning to logically separate my files. This helps reduce the sizes of my backups and excludes system files from indexing/searching. For example, WizFile and WizTree are two very useful programs that work best with files organized by partitions. My partitioning strategy looks like this: - C: Windows/system - D: data I want in backups (Windows desktop/documents/user directories have been moved here) - V: variable data that is either temporary or does not need frequent backups (Dropbox, Google drive, etc). Also most program files (installed via scoop) Other types of OS/FS may not need partitions to accomplish this.