You can back up and restore data on the Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) cloud storage service by using the Linux File System agent.
If you use the UNIX File System agent to perform backups, the automount feature is not supported.
Backups and Restores
Backups You can Perform
Full backups
Differential backups
Incremental backups
Synthetic full backups
Data You Can Back Up
Regular files and directories, including the following, are backed up:
Regular data
Hard link
Soft link
Sparse files
Zip files
Unicode
Long path files
Supported NFS Versions
Amazon supports NFSv4.0, NFSv4.1, and later versions.
Limitations
Amazon EFS does not support certain features in NFSv4.0 and NFSv4.1. See Unsupported NFSv4.0 and 4.1 features in the AWS documentation.
Supported Amazon Storage Classes
Amazon EFS Standard
Amazon EFS Standard-Infrequent Access (EFS Standard-IA)
Amazon EFS One Zone
Amazon EFS One Zone-Infrequent Access (EFS One Zone-IA)
Supported Amazon Throughput Modes
Bursting Throughput
Provisioned Throughput