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Chapter 11 Data Protection
Adding a User-Defined Inclusion Filter
To add a user-defined Inclusion Filter
1Click Advanced > Data.
2Click the Configuration tab.
You can specify the Inclusion Filter on the Data page.
File Filters displays three columns: Filter, State, and Detail.
 Filter lists the pattern for protecting files and folders on the active server.
 State describes the filter state
 Effective – The filter is properly configured and protects (replicates) the stipulated files to the
passive server.
 Subset – contained within another filter
 Not Effective – not contained within another filter
 Detail describes file filter details based upon the state.
To define filters that protect user defined files and folders
1Click Add Inclusion Filter and type the complete path and pattern, specify a pattern containing
wildcards, or use Browse to locate the file or folder.
2Click OK.
The two forms of wildcards available are *, which matches all files in the folder, and **, which matches all
files, subfolders and the files in the subfolders of the folder.
After defining the filter, you can add additional Inclusion Filters.
3 To edit file filter definitions, select the filter and click Edit.