User Guide

User’s Guide 43
Prevent and Protect
• Question Mark ( ? )–a single-character placeholder. For example, you
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
The most important asset on your computer is the information, or data, you
create and store there. Over time, this data grows in size and value. The
storage devices where you keep this information are vulnerable to a wide
range of environmental and human factors that can damage or destroy all or
part of the data stored there.
Valuable and vulnerable disk organizational structure information is also
stored in various places on a hard drive. This includes the boot sector, partition
tables, directories, the FAT (file allocation table), and other structural
components. These structural components are used by Windows to find data
on the drive, organize it, and so on. If any one of these components is damaged
or destroyed, you will not be able to access the data you’ve stored on the drive.
Protected Volume Files (The Ultimate Backup Protection)
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.
NOTE: A rescue disk can restore files from Safe & Sound protected
volumes file backup sets on drives that have been damaged, erased or
accidentally formatted.