Backup - Mac File System iDataAgent

Perform a Backup

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

  1. From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | File System | defaultBackupSet.

    Right-click the default subclient and click Backup.

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  2. Click Full as backup type and then click Immediate.

    Click OK.

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  3. You can track the progress of the job from the Job Controller window of the CommCell console.

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  4. Once the job is complete, view the job details from the Backup History. Right-click the Subclient and select Backup History.

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  5. Click OK.

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  6. You can right-click the job and view the following details:

    • Items that failed during the job

    • Details of the job

    • Events of the job

    • Log files of the job

    • Media associated with the job

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What Gets Backed Up

What Does Not Get Backed Up

File Systems

Hierarchical File System (HFS)

HFS+, Universal Disk Format (UDF)

MS-DOS

Universal File System (UFS)

By default, the following file systems are automatically skipped during backups:

  • nfs

  • nfs3

  • nfs4

  • smbfs

  • afp

  • msdos

  • webdav

  • ftp

  • synthfs

  • ISO 9660

  • udf

  • cd

  • lofs

  • tmpfs

  • proc

  • ctfs

  • autofs

File System Elements

Raw device files

Symbolic links that are browsed or manually added to the data contents

Files with names containing non-ASCII characters as long as the appropriate locales are set

Files for which the file path or file name contains more than 1024 characters

Finder tags

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