How to: Create New File Filters

1. From the navigation menu of the backup wizard select What to Backup.

2. Select My Folders tab.

3. Click File Filters.

4. Click Create Rule.

5. Select one of the following options:

• All data: Apply created filter to all selected files and folders in the backup job.

• Selected folder: Apply created filter to the folder that was highlighted prior to opening the File Filters dialog.

• Browse for folder: Select a folder to attach the created filter to.

6. Click Ok to return to the main dialog.

7. Select one of the following two options:

• Include only file with the following mask: Only files matching the specified file mask will processed during backup.

• Exclude files with the following mask: File matching the specified file mask will not be processed.

8. Type the name or part of the name of files you wish to filter. You can use wildcard characters to filter files that include a certain part of the name. For instance *.doc will filter all files with the extension doc. You can add more than one file mask per rule, use a semicolon (;) as a separator.

9. If you wish to apply the created rule to the decedents of the selected folder, select Include Sub folder

10. Click More options to enable filtering by size and date.

• Filtering by Size

• Filtering by Date

Quickly Adding a File Extension to a Previously Created Filter

From the My Folders tab in the What to Backup wizard screen right-click on the folder then choose Add rule to this folder.