Supported Features - UNIX File System iDataAgent

Note

Beginning from Commvault Platform Release 2024, version 1 indexing for Unix file system is no longer supported.

For comprehensive information about deprecated features, see End-of-Life, Deprecated and Extended Support - Features.

The following table lists the features that are supported by this Agent.

Feature

Sub-Feature

Support

Comments

Advanced Backup/Archive Options

Data tab - Verify Synthetic Full

tick

Job Retry tab

tick

Media tab - Allow other Schedule to use Media Set

tick

Media tab - Mark Media Full on Success

tick

Media tab - Reserve Resources Before Scan

tick

Media tab - Start New Media

tick

Startup tab

tick

Vault Tracking tab

tick

Comments

tick

Additional option in the Data tab:

Advanced File System Agent Options

Automatic File System Multi-Streaming

tick

On-Demand Data Protection Operation

tick

Restore by Jobs

Restore Data Using a Map File

tick

Comments

tick

  • Multiple user-defined subclient creation is also supported for On-Demand Backup Set.

  • On-Demand Backup Set is not supported for IntelliSnap Backup.

Alerts and Monitoring

Global Alerts

tick

Job-Based Alerts

tick

Comments

Backup/Archive Options

Block-Level Backup

tick

Differential Backup

tick

Full Backup

tick

Incremental Backup

tick

Synthetic Full Backup

tick

Comments

tick

  • IntelliSnap backup

  • Differential backups are not supported for OnePass subclients

  • Full, incremental, and synthetic block-level backups are supported

  • Configuring incremental block-level backups using ctime and/or mtime is not supported

  • Incremental block-level backup job shows changed files if metadata collection is enabled

  • View Backup Items option is supported if metadata collection is enabled during block-level backup

Browse

Browse from Copy Precedence

tick

Browse the Latest Data

tick

Browse Using Filters

tick

Exclude Data Before

tick

Find

tick

Full Backup Transparent Browse

tick

Image Browse

tick

No Image Browse

tick

Page Size

tick

Specify Browse Path

tick

Specify Browse Time

tick

Subclient Browse

tick

Use MediaAgent

tick

View All Versions

tick

Comments

Clustering

Netware cluster

Unix Cluster

tick

Windows - Microsoft Cluster (MSCS)

Windows - Non-Microsoft Cluster

Comments

tick

AIX, HP-UX, Linux and Solaris support VERITAS Cluster

Command Line Interface

Command Line Interface

tick

Comments

CommCell Migration

CommCell Migration

tick

Comments

tick

CommCell Migration is also supported with Virtualize Me and 1-Touch restores.

Content Indexing

Offline Content Indexing

tick

Comments

Data Aging

Basic Retention Rules

tick

Deleting a Job

tick

Extended Retention Rules

tick

Retaining a Job

tick

Unique Data Aging Rules

Comments

Data Compression

Client Compression

tick

Hardware Compression

tick

MediaAgent Compression

tick

Comments

Data Encryption

Data Encryption

tick

Third-party Command Line Encryption Support

Comments

Data Multiplexing

Multiplexing

tick

Comments

Deduplication

MediaAgent-Side Deduplication

tick

Source-Side Deduplication

tick

Comments

To maintain the deduplication ratio and prevent DDB issues, you can exclude the SQL dump files using the sDedupeExcludeExtensions additional setting.

Delete Backup and Archive Data

Delete Data Using CommCell Console

tick

Delete Data Using Web Console

tick

Comments

tick

File System Backup Quota

File System Backup Quota

tick

Comments

Global Filters

Global Filters

tick

Comments

GRC

GRC

tick

Comments

tick

GRC is supported with Virtualize Me and 1-Touch Restore.

Installing 32-bit Components on a Microsoft Windows x64 Platform

Install 32-bit On x64

Comments

Job Restart - Data Protection

Not Restartable

Restarts from the Beginning

Restarts from the Beginning of the Database

Restarts from the Point-of-Failure

tick

Comments

Job Restart - Data Recovery

Not Restartable

Restarts from the Beginning

Restarts from the Beginning of the Database

Restarts from the Point-of-Failure

tick

Comments

List Media

List Media Associated with a Specific Backup Set or Instance

tick

List Media Associated with Index

tick

List Media Associated with Specific Files and/or Folders

tick

List Media Associated with Specific Jobs

tick

Comments

Live Sync

Replication

tick

Failover

Failback

Validation

tick

Multi Instancing

Multi-Instance Installations

tick

Comments

tick

  • IntelliSnap backups are not supported on a client with multiple instances.

  • Block-level backups are not supported on a client with multiple instances.

Optimized Scan

Optimized Scan

tick

Comments

tick

  • System mount points like var, tmp and opt are not monitored

  • Not supported on Solaris non-global zones

Pre/Post Processes

Pre/Post Process with Data Protection and Recovery

tick

Comments

Restore/Recover/Retrieve Destinations

Cross-Application Restores (Different Application version)

Cross-Platform Restores - Different Operating System

tick

Cross-Platform Restores - Same Operating System - Different Version

tick

In-place Restore - Same path/ destination - Same Client

tick

Out-of-place Restore - Different path/ destination

tick

Out-of-place Restore - Same path/ destination - Different Client

tick

Point-in-Time Restore

Restore Data Using a Map File

tick

Restore to Network Drive /NFS-Mounted File System

tick

Table-Level Restore

Comments

tick

See Advanced - Linux File System Restore.

Restore/Recover/Retrieve Options

Automatic Detection of Regular Expressions

tick

Filter Data From Recover Operations

tick

Rename/ Redirect Files on Restore

tick

Restore Data Using Wildcard Expressions

tick

Restore Data with Pre/Post Processes

tick

Restore from Copies

tick

Skip Errors and Continue

tick

Use Exact Index

tick

Use MediaAgent

tick

Comments

Restore/Recover/Retrieve Overwrite Options

Overwrite Files

tick

Overwrite if file in backup is newer

tick

Restore only if target exists

tick

Unconditional Overwrite

tick

Unconditionally overwrite only if target is a DataArchiver stub

Comments

Schedule Policy

Agent Specific Data Protection Schedule Policy

tick

All Agent Types Schedule Policy

tick

Comments

Storage Policies

Incremental Storage Policy

tick

Standard Storage Policies

tick

Comments

Subclient Policies

Subclient Policy

tick

Comments

tick

Not supported with block-level backups

User Administration and Security

Backup Set/Archive Set

tick

Instance

Subclient

tick

Comments

Web Console Support

Web Console Interface

tick

Comments

tick

For supported operations, see My Computers.

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