Your computer contains many types of files. The types of files may range from simple text files to word processing, spreadsheet, picture, project, music, video, and so on.


When a protection plan runs for the first time, the software performs data compression and data deduplication on all the files specified by the protection plan and builds an index so that the current and subsequent plan runs will achieve the best data reduction possible.


Some file formats do not compress well. The contents of these files are static, that is, the files themselves probably will not change. Examples of these kinds of files are music and audio files, video files, photographs and images (pictures, etc.), and compressed files. This software will protect all of these files and ensure that these files are only archived once (assuming the file does not change), but these files could take up a significant amount of space on your storage disk. If you have collections of music, video, or photos that are multiple gigabytes in size, you may want to protect these files by using a second store on a second disk and use your primary storage for your important business type data.


While editing a protection plan from its Plan Settings page, you can easily exclude file types from your plan. In the Folders tab click the Exclude file types button to display a list of predefined file types that can be excluded. There are several categories of file types that you can exclude from a protection plan. To expand these categories, click the plus sign. Select the file types you want to exclude by checking the appropriate boxes.


The Folders tab then updates with the file types that are excluded.