Setting Archive Options - McAfee MTP09EMB1RAA - Total Protection 2009 User Manual

Setting archive options

Before you start archiving your files, you must set some local
archive options. For example, you must set up the watch
locations and watch file types. Watch locations are the folders on
your computer that Backup and Restore monitors for new files or
file changes. Watch file types are the types of files (for example,
.doc, .xls, and so on) that Backup and Restore archives within the
watch locations. By default, the following file types are archived;
however, you can also archive other file types.
Microsoft® Word documents (.doc, .docx)
Microsoft Excel® spreadsheets (.xls, .xlsx)
Microsoft PowerPoint® presentations (.ppt, .pptx)
Microsoft Project® files (.mpp)
Adobe® PDF files (.pdf)
Plain text files (.txt)
HTML files (.html)
Joint Photographic Experts Group files (.jpg, .jpeg)
Tagged Image Format files (.tif)
MPEG Audio Stream III files (.mp3)
Video files (.vdo)
Note: You cannot archive the following file types: .ost, and .pst.
You can set up two types of watch locations: top-level folders and
subfolders, and top-level folders only. If you set up a top-level
folders and subfolders location, Backup and Restore archives the
watch file types within that folder and its subfolders. If you set up
a top-level folders location, Backup and Restore archives the
watch file types within that folder only (not its subfolders).You
can also identify locations that you want to exclude from the local
archive. By default, the Windows Desktop and My Documents
locations are set up as top-level folders and subfolders watch
locations.
After you set up the watch file types and locations, you must set
up the archive location (that is, the CD, DVD, USB drive, external
hard drive, or network drive where archived data will be stored).
You can change the archive location at any time.
For security reasons or size issues, encryption or compression are
enabled by default for your archived files. The content of
encrypted files is transformed from text to code, obscuring the
information to make it unreadable by people who do not know
how to decrypt it. Compressed files are compressed into a form
that minimizes the space required to store or transmit it.
Although McAfee does not recommend doing so, you can disable
encryption or compression at any time.
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