McAfee MIS09EMB3RAA User Guide - Page 173

Chapter 35 McAfee Internet Security 171 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. ƒ Microsoft® Word documents (.doc, .docx) ƒ Microsoft Excel® spreadsheets (.xls, .xlsx) ƒ Microsoft PowerPoint® presentations (.ppt, .pptx) ƒ Microsoft Project® files (.mpp) ƒ Adobe® PDF files (.pdf) ƒ Plain text files (.txt) ƒ HTML files (.html) ƒ Joint Photographic Experts Group files (.jpg, .jpeg) ƒ Tagged Image Format files (.tif) ƒ MPEG Audio Stream III files (.mp3) ƒ 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.