These are identified in the Job Definition wizard as ‘Drives and folders’ scans.
Which Files Can Be Scanned?
The FSA can monitor files in specified folders on specified machines and can manage multiple scanning jobs simultaneously. It can scan all currently supported file types and apply policy to those files using Data At Rest triggers.
Which File Types Can Be Excluded?
When you define a scanning job, you can specify whether the scan includes system, hidden and offline folders and files. You can also specify whether to scan subfolders.
The 'offline' job attribute indicates that the text content of a file (or files within a folder) has been archived by a third party application and the original file replaced with a stub file. Scanning offline files and folders can take a long time because the third party archive application must first retrieve the original files. You can therefore configure the FSA to ignore offline files and folders.
If required, you can exclude system files and folders. But note that very few files and folders have this Windows attribute. To omit specific system files or folders from your scans, we recommend you exclude them individually in the job definition.
Which Files Are Not Scanned?
The FSA ignores the following files:
If a scanning job is configured to scan all ‘local hard drives’, be aware that this will not include removable disk drives. That is, the FSA will not scan files on DVDs or CDs, USB flash drives, SD cards, optical drives, and so on.
However, the FSA will scan a removable drive if it is specified explicitly in the job definition as a scan location (that is, the job specifies a path to a removable drive). But note that the FSA cannot perform Delete or Replace actions on read-only media such as CDs and DVDs.
The FSA ignores files that have not changed since the last scan. That is, it does not scan unchanged files. This greatly speeds up regular file scans, particularly if only a small proportion of files have been modified since the previous scan. The FSA can quickly identify these files by checking the file hashes in the scanned file database.
When you set up a scanning job, you can explicitly exclude files in specific folders and files. Alternatively, you can configure jobs to only include specific folders and files.
You can specify that files over a certain size are not scanned. To do this, you edit the Maximum Size of Files setting in the user policy System Settings folder.'
Note: To ensure that files of any size are scanned, set Maximum Size of Files to a value of zero.
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