File Types Excluded from Backup for Carbonite Safe Backup Pro
- This article is for Mac 1x and Mac 2x (Not sure?) | View the Windows article
The following folders are excluded from your online backupA set of copies of your files on our servers.:
/**/*.app
/**/.DS_Store
/.fseventsd/*
/.hotfiles.btree
/.Spotlight*/*
/.Trashes/*
/.vol/*
/Applications/*
/automount/*
/bin/*
/cores/*
/Desktop DB
/Desktop DF
/dev/*
/etc/*
/home/*
/Library/*
/mach.sym
/mach_kernel*
/mach
/net/*
/Network/*
/opt/*
/private/*
/sbin/*
/sw/*
/System/*
/tmp/*
/User Guides And Information/*
/Users/**/Burn Folder*/*
/Users/**/Parallels/*
/Users/**/Virtual Machines*/*
/Users/*/.config/Carbonite/*
/Users/*/.Trash/*
/Users/*/Applications (Parallels)/*
/Users/*/Applications/*
/Users/*/Library/Application Support/Adobe/*
/Users/*/Library/Application Support/Backup/*
/Users/*/Library/Application Support/Bitdefender Virus Scanner/*
/Users/*/Library/Application Support/Carbonite/Sync & Share/*
/Users/*/Library/Application Support/com.apple.QuickLook/*
/Users/*/Library/Application Support/comMobileSync/*
/Users/*/Library/Application Support/Console/*
/Users/*/Library/Application Support/CrashReporter/*
/Users/*/Library/Application Support/iDVD/*
/Users/*/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/*
/Users/*/Library/Application Support/iLifePageLAyout/*
/Users/*/Library/Application Support/Macromedia/*
/Users/*/Library/Application Support/Mozilla/*
/Users/*/Library/Application Support/PreferenceSync/*
/Users/*/Library/Application Support/Preview/*
/Users/*/Library/Application Support/Skype/*
/Users/*/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/*
/Users/*/Library/Application Support/Ubiquity/*
/Users/*/Library/Autosave Information/*
/Users/*/Library/Autosave Information/Adobe/*
/Users/*/Library/Caches/*
/Users/*/Library/Calendars/Calendar Cache/*
/Users/*/Library/Colors/*
/Users/*/Library/Compositions/*
/Users/*/Library/Cookies/*
/Users/*/Library/Font Collections/*
/Users/*/Library/Fonts Disabled/*
/Users/*/Library/Fonts Discontinued/*
/Users/*/Library/Fonts/*
/Users/*/Library/Google/*
/Users/*/Library/Logs/*
/Users/*/Library/Mail/V2/*.IMAP
/Users/*/Library/Preferences/ByHost/*
/Users/*/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Japanese.analysis/*
/Users/*/Library/PubSub/*
/Users/*/Library/Saved Application State/*
/Users/*/Library/WebKit/*
/Users/*/Pictures/Lightroom/Lightroom*Catalog Previews.lrdata/*
/usr/*
/var/*
/Volumes/*
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Applications/*
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Developer/*
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/Creative Cloud/*
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/Shared/CarbointeInfo/*
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/Shared/Library/*
Additionally, Mac Mail data, and individual files larger than 1TBA terabyte is a unit of measurement that commonly describes the data storage capacity of a computer hard drive. It is equivalent to 1024 GB (gigabytes), or 1,048,576 MB (megabytes). must be selected manually.
The following file types are also excluded by default from your backups and may not be manually selected for backup:
.$$$; |
.$db; |
.113; |
.a; |
.abf; |
.abk; |
.afm; |
.ani; |
.ann; |
.app; |
.bac; |
.bak; |
.bck; |
.bcm; |
.bdb; |
.bdf; |
.bkf; |
.bkp; |
.bmk; |
.bsc; |
.cab; |
.cf1; |
.chm; |
.chq; |
.chw; |
.cnt; |
.com; |
.cpl; |
.cur; |
.dev; |
.dfont; |
.dll; |
.dmg; |
.dmp; |
.drv; |
.dvd; |
.eot; |
.evt; |
.exe; |
.ffa; |
.ffl; |
.ffo; |
.ffx; |
.fnt; |
.fon; |
.ftg; |
.fts; |
.fxp; |
.gid; |
.grp; |
.hdd; |
.hlp; |
.hxi; |
.hxq; |
.hxr; |
.hxs; |
.ico; |
.idb; |
.ilk; |
.inf; |
.ins; |
.ipa; |
.ipf; |
.ipsw; |
.iso; |
.isp; |
.its; |
.jar; |
.jse; |
.kbd; |
.kext; |
.lex; |
.lib; |
.library-ms; |
.lnk; |
.lockfile; |
.log; |
.lwfn; |
.mem; |
.msc; |
.msi; |
.msm; |
.msp; |
.mst; |
.ncb; |
.nt; |
.nvram; |
.o; |
.obj; |
.obs; |
.ocx; |
.old; |
.ost; |
.otf; |
.pch; |
.pf; |
.pfa; |
.pfb; |
.pfm; |
.pkg; |
.pnf; |
.pol; |
.pref; |
.prf; |
.prg; |
.prn; |
.pvm; |
.pvs; |
.pwl; |
.rdb; |
.reg; |
.rll; |
.rox; |
.sbr; |
.scf; |
.scr; |
.sdb; |
.shb; |
.sqlite-journal; |
.suit; |
.swf; |
.swp; |
.sys; |
.theme; |
.tmp; |
.tms; |
.ttc; |
.ttf; |
.v2i; |
.vbe; |
.vdi; |
.vga; |
.vgd; |
.vhd; |
.vmc; |
.vmdk; |
.vmem; |
.vmsd; |
.vmsn; |
.vmx; |
.vmxf; |
.vxd; |
.win; |
.wpk; |