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3. In Select items for backup, select Using policy rules.
4. Select any of the predefined rules, type your own rules, or combine both.
The policy rules will be applied to all of the machines included in the backup plan. If no data
meeting at least one of the rules is found on a machine when the backup starts, the backup will
fail on that machine.
5. Click Done.
Selection rules for Windows
 Full path to a file or folder, for example D:\Work\Text.doc or C:\Windows.
 Templates:
 [All Files] selects all files on all volumes of the machine.
 [All Profiles Folder] selects the folder where all user profiles are located (typically,
C:\Users or C:\Documents and Settings).
 Environment variables:
 %ALLUSERSPROFILE% selects the folder where the common data of all user profiles is
located (typically, C:\ProgramData or C:\Documents and Settings\All Users).
 %PROGRAMFILES% selects the Program Files folder (for example, C:\Program Files).
 %WINDIR% selects the folder where Windows is located (for example, C:\Windows).
You can use other environment variables or a combination of environment variables and text. For
example, to select the Java folder in the Program Files folder, type: %PROGRAMFILES%\Java.
Selection rules for Linux
 Full path to a file or directory. For example, to back up file.txt on the volume /dev/hda3
mounted on /home/usr/docs, specify /dev/hda3/file.txt or /home/usr/docs/file.txt.
 /home selects the home directory of the common users.
 /root selects the root user's home directory.
 /usr selects the directory for all user-related programs.
 /etc selects the directory for system configuration files.
Selection rules for OS X
Full path to a file or directory.
Examples:
 To back up file.txt on your desktop, specify /Users/<username>/Desktop/file.txt, where
<username> is your user name.
 To back up all users' home directories, specify /Users.
 To back up the directory where the applications are installed, specify /Applications.
1.7.2.3 Selecting system state
System state backup is available for machines running Windows Vista and later.
To back up system state, in What to back up, select System state.
A system state backup is comprised of the following files:
 Task scheduler configuration
 VSS Metadata Store
 Performance counter configuration information