BACKUP & RESTORE (FILE SYSTEM)

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1 Table of Contents Table of Contents... 1 Perform a Backup (File System)... 1 What Gets Backed Up... 2 What Does Not Get Backed Up... 3 Perform a Restore... 4 Perform a Backup (File System) 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. Page 1 of 6

2 4. Once the job is complete, view the job details from the Backup History. Rightclick 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 What Gets Backed Up COMPONENT File System WHAT GETS BACKED UP Extended 2 File System (ext2) Extended 3 File System (ext3) Extended 4 File System (ext4) Page 2 of 6

3 General Parallel File System (GPFS) X9000 IBRIX File System (IBRIXFS) 6.x Moose File System (MooseFS) Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS2) Reiser File System (reiserfs) Red Hat File System GFS 5.2 VERITAS File System (VxFS) VERITAS Cluster File System (VxCFS) 'X' File System (XFS) Volume Managers File System Elements Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) 5.0 or higher Logical Volume Manager (LVM) Files 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 What Does Not Get Backed Up COMPONENT File System File System Elements WHAT DOES NOT GET BACKED UP By default, the following file systems are automatically skipped during backups: nfs, isofs, openpromfs, smbfs, devfs, procfs, nsspool, sysfs, floppy, lofs, tmpfs, proc, ctfs Files with mandatory locks - these files are not backed up by default. Files for which the file path or file name contains more than 1024 characters For advanced settings please check the online documentation Page 3 of 6

4 Perform a Restore It is recommended that you perform a restore operation immediately after your first full backup to understand the process. The following section explains how to restore the etc folder to a new location. 1. From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers <Client> File System defaultbackupset Right-click the default subclient and then click Browse Backup Data. 2. Click OK. 3. Expand the defaultbackupset and navigate to etc folder. Select the etc folder. Click Recover All Selected. Page 4 of 6

5 4. Clear the Overwrite Files and Restore to same folder options. Specify the destination path by clicking Browse button. This will ensure that the existing files are not overwritten. Click OK. 5. Click the Job Initiation tab. Select Immediate to run the job immediately. Click OK. 6. You can monitor the progress of the restore job in the Job Controller window of the CommCell Console. Page 5 of 6

6 7. Once the restore job has completed, right-click the defaultbackupset, point to View and then click Restore History. 8. Click OK. 9. You can view the following details about the job by right-clicking the job: View Restore Items as Successful, Failed, Skipped or All. View Job Details View Events of the restore job. View Log files of the restore job 10. Once the File System is restored, verify that the restored files/folders are available in the restore destination provided during step 4. [parc02] # ls /.metacity etc Page 6 of 6