Safe & Sound; Regular Backups With Safe & Sound - McAfee OFFICE 3.1 User Manual

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could enter map??.bmp to exclude a range of files named map01.bmp
through map99.bmp.
Trash Guard also lets you select files in the Files To Exclude list and click
Modify to modify the definition of these files, or click the Remove button to
remove them from the list of files to exclude.
Safe & Sound
McAfee Utilities Safe & Sound lets you create backup sets in protected volume
files, which is the safest and preferred type of backup, and is unique to McAfee
Utilities. A protected volume file is a sectioned-off area of the drive, sometimes
called a logical drive. Safe & Sound's protected volume files have some very
special characteristics that let Safe & Sound reconstruct backup files sector by
sector, even if the drive's standard FAT is damaged or completely lost. In fact,
files can be largely reconstructed even if large parts of the drive are unreadable
or erased.
The protected volume file also includes enough information in each directory
entry to completely reconstruct a file's entire directory tree even if all its parent
nodes are erased.
Safe & Sound provides internal redundancy in the protected volume file
backups you create. It does this by marking each sector of each file that it backs
up with identifying information about the sector's contents and the file that
sector belongs to. Each sector in a protected volume file contains enough
information to allow files to be reconstructed from their individual sectors.
Regular backups with Safe & Sound
Your data is very valuable and costly to recreate. This means that making
frequent or even mirror backup copies of the important data on your drives is
crucial. A mirror backup copy is always identical to the original information on
the source drive.
Safe & Sound automates the back-up process, doing the time-consuming and
repetitive work for you. It lets you decide which types of files to back up, how
often to save them, and where you want the backup set located (on the same
drive, another local drive, or on a shared network drive). With Safe & Sound,
you can create mirror backup sets that are, at any given time, an exact replica
of the files you've selected to back up on the source drive. You can also specify
a short time delay in the backup, or back up manually by copying files to the
backup set on your drive if you prefer.
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