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used for verification purposes. With this two-level security, the backup data is protected from any
unauthorized access, but recovering a lost password is not possible.
3.4.1.2
Source files exclusion
This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems and bootable media.
This option is effective for disk-level backup of NTFS and FAT file systems only. This option is effective
for file-level backup of all supported file systems.
The option defines which files and folders to skip during the backup process and thus exclude from
the list of backed-up items.
The preset is:
Exclude files matching the following criteria: *.tmp, *.~, *.bak.
To specify which files and folders to exclude:
Set up any of the following parameters:
Exclude all hidden files and folders
Select this check box to skip files and folders with the Hidden attribute. If a folder is Hidden, all of
its contents — including files that are not Hidden — will be excluded.
Exclude all system files and folders
Select this check box to skip files and folders with the System attribute. If a folder is System, all of
its contents — including files that are not System — will be excluded.
You can view file or folder attributes in the file/folder properties or by using the
attrib
command. For more
information, refer to the Help and Support Center in Windows.
Exclude files matching the following criteria
Select this check box to skip files whose names match any of the criteria — called file masks — in
the list; use the
Add
,
Edit
,
Remove
and
Remove All
buttons to create the list of file masks.
You can use one or more wildcard characters * and ? in a file mask:
The asterisk (*) substitutes for zero or more characters in a file name; for example, the file mask
Doc*.txt yields files such as Doc.txt and Document.txt
The question mark (?) substitutes for exactly one character in a file name; for example, the file
mask Doc?.txt yields files such as Doc1.txt and Docs.txt — but not the files Doc.txt or Doc11.txt
Exclusion examples
Criterion
Example
Description
By name
File1.log
Excludes all files named File1.log.
By path
C:\Finance\test.log
Excludes the file named test.log located in the folder
C:\Finance
Mask (*)
*.log
Excludes all files with the .log extension.
Mask (?)
my???.log
Excludes all .log files with names consisting of five symbols
and starting with “my”.
The above settings are not effective for the files or folders that were explicitly selected for backup. For example,
assume that you selected the folder MyFolder and the file MyFile.tmp outside that folder, and selected to skip
all .tmp files. In this case, all .tmp files in the folder MyFolder will be skipped during the backup process, but the
file MyFile.tmp will not be skipped.
