Getting Started - Windows File System Backup

Perform a Backup

Once the storage policy is configured, you are ready to perform your first backup.

What Gets Backed up

Component

What Gets Backed Up
File System File Allocation Table (FAT) file systems

New Technology File Systems (NTFS)

Transactional File Systems

Distributed File System (DFS) data
File System Elements Universal Naming Convention (UNC) Paths

Mount Points

Encrypted files

Compressed Data

Shared Volumes

Share with Macintosh data

Single Instance Storage

Remote Storage Service
System State System File Protection catalog and files

Performance monitor configuration files

Active Directory

Registry

Quotas

SYSVOL (if this is a domain controller)

Certificate Services database (if this is a certificate server)

Cluster database (if this server is part of a cluster)

COM+ database

Terminal Server Licensing database

RSM database

WMI database

DHCP

WINS

IIS

UDDI (only with Windows Server 2003 using VSS)

Disk quota information

Event logs

Content Indexing catalogs

Network Policy Server (NPS)

1-Touch Component

Office Communication Server (OCS) OCS Data

OCS Settings

What Does Not Get Backed up

Component

What Does Not Get Backed Up
File System Locked Files - Files that are locked by applications or system programs while they are in use.
Office Communication Server (OCS) OCS Metadata - Use SQL Server iDataAgent to backup the OCS Metadata.
Resilient File System (ReFS) on Windows Server 2012 Change Journal and Data Classification scan methods are not supported on Resilient File System (ReFS) volumes - Use the classic scan to backup the data.
System State Offline files will not get backed up if the client computer has UEFI.
Web Server on Windows Server 2012 Data from the Web Server will not get backed up.

The following section provides step-by-step instructions for performing your first backup:

1.
  • From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | File System | defaultBackupSet.
  • Right-click the default subclient and click Backup.
2.
  • Click Full as backup type and then click Immediate.
  • Click OK.
3. You can track the progress of the job from the Job Controller window of the CommCell console.
4. Once the job is complete, view the job details from the Backup History. Right-click the Subclient and select Backup History.  
5. Click OK.
6. You can view the following details about the job by right-clicking the job:
  • Items that failed during the job
  • Items that succeeded during the job
  • Details of the job
  • Events of the job
  • Log files of the job
  • Media associated with the job