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what gets backed up | what does not get backed up |
File SystemsEnhanced Journal File System (JFS2)General Parallel File System (GPFS) Journal File System (JFS) VERITAS File System (VxFS) Volume ManagersVeritas Volume Manager (VxVM) 5.0 or higher Logical Volume Manager (LVM) |
By default, the following file systems are automatically skipped during backups:
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File System ElementsFiles with holes Raw device files Files with Advisory locks A maximum path level of 10 symbolic links pointing to each raw device Files with names containing non-ASCII characters as long as the appropriate locales are set Shares with Macintosh File System data Symbolic links that are browsed or manually added to the data contents |
Files with mandatory locks - these files are not backed up by default.
See
Configuring Backups For Locked Files to backup files with mandatory
locks. Files for which the file path or file name contains more than 1023 characters |
Once the storage policy is configured, you are ready to perform your first backup.
The following section provides step-by-step instructions for performing your first backup:
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