Excluding items from backup

If you want to exclude unnecessary files from a backup, specify the appropriate file types on the Exclusions tab of the backup options. You can specify exclusions for Disk and partitions backup, File Backup or Online Backup.

When you select a specific file for backup, it cannot be excluded by the exclusion settings. The settings are applicable only to files located on a partition, disk, or inside a folder selected for backup.

How to use the default exclusion settings

After you have installed the application, all the exclusion settings are set to the initial values. You can change them for your current backup operation only or for all backups that will be created in future. Select the Save as default check box to apply the modified settings to all further backup operations by default. If you want to reset all the modified settings to the values that they were originally set to when the product was installed, click the Reset to initial settings button.

What you can exclude and how

1. You can exclude hidden and system files from a backup by selecting the corresponding check boxes.

We do not recommend excluding hidden and system files from the backups of your system partition.

2. You can exclude files meeting the criteria you specify. To do this, select the Files matching the following criteria check box, enter the exclusion criterion, and then click Add.

By default, the program excludes from backups files with the following extensions: .~, .tmp, and .tib.

How to add an exclusion criterion:

• You can enter explicit file names for exclusion from the backup:
  • file.ext - all such files will be excluded from the backup.
  • C:\file.ext - the file.ext file on the C: disk will be excluded.
• You can use wildcard characters (* and ?):
  • *.ext - all files with a .ext extension will be excluded.
  • ??name.ext - all files with a .ext extension, having six letters in their names (starting with any two symbols (??) and ending with name), will be excluded.
• To exclude a folder, click Browse, select the folder you want to exclude on the directory tree, click OK, and then click Add.

To delete a criterion, for example, added by mistake, click the Delete icon to the right of the criterion.