what gets backed up | what does not get backed up |
File SystemsB-tree File System (Btrfs) Extended 2 File System (ext2) Extended 3 File System (ext3) Extended 4 File System (ext4) General Parallel File System (GPFS) Global File System (GFS/GFS2) Lustre File System (Clustered File System) Moose File System (MooseFS) Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS2) Reiser File System (reiserfs) VERITAS File System (VxFS) VERITAS Cluster File System (VxCFS) X9000 IBRIX File System (IBRIXFS) 6.x 'X' File System (XFS) 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 Files with advisory locks Raw device files 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 Symbolic links that are browsed or manually added to the data contents Shares with Macintosh File System data |
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 1024 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: