Marking Files - HP BB118BV - StorageWorks Data Protector Express Package User's Manual & Technical Reference

You use the Selection property page of a job to select the files to be backed up. Data Protector Express
provides powerful selection filters that allow you to select exactly the files you want and to automatically
update your selection when the job is run.
First, you select the volumes, folders and files to be backed up. You can also specify an optional selection
filter that is applied when the job runs to exclude those files that don't meet your backup criteria. For
repeating backup jobs, the actual files backed up when the job runs also depend on the backup mode:
full, incremental, or differential.
To select files for backup jobs
1.
View the properties of the backup job and click on the Selection page.
2.
Check the selection boxes next to the files, folders or other containers to mark the ones you wish
to back up.
3. Optionally, click the Selection filters button on the tool bar and specify filter selection criteria.
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Files, folders, and other containers (e.g., volumes and computers) are displayed in a tree view on the
Selection page. All containers act similarly regarding selection, so any discussion about folders applies
equally to any other container unless otherwise noted.
A folder in the tree can be expanded or collapsed by clicking the adjacent plus or minus sign respectively.
You can select or deselect a file by checking or clearing the selection box next to the file.
You can select or deselect a folder by checking or clearing the selection box next to the folder. When
you select a folder or other container, you automatically select everything within it. If the checkbox for a
folder is checked, all files within it are selected, including all files within all subfolders. If the checkbox for
a folder is clear, no files and subfolders within that folder are selected. If the checkbox for a folder is
shaded, some, but not all, of the files or subfolders within it are selected.
You can select the contents of a folder in one of two ways: either by individually checking each file in that
folder one-by-one or by checking the folder itself. Which method you choose is important because it
affects which files Data Protector Express included in the selection list after changes have been made to
that folder.
If you select each file in the folder individually, when new files are added to the folder, Data Protector
Express automatically selected for backup. However, if you select the folder itself, when new files are
created in that folder, they are automatically selected for backup.
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