The Commvault file archiving solution for UNIX and Mac File Systems enables you to move data to a secondary storage and use it to function as an archive copy.
Note
UNIX archiving does not support named pipe (FIFO) and symbolic link (symlink) files.
What is Archived
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Operating System |
Archived File Systems |
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AIX |
Journal File System 2 (JFS2)) IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) Network File System (NFS) VERITAS File System (VxFS) VERITAS Cluster File System (VxCFS) |
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FreeBSD |
Unix File System (UFS) Zettabyte File System (ZFS) |
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HP-UX |
VERITAS File System (VxFS) |
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Linux |
'X' File System (XFS) Extended 3 File System (ext3) Extended 4 File System (ext4) IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) Network File System (NFS) Oracle ASM Cluster File System (ACFS) X9000 IBRIX File System (IBRIXFS) 6.x PolyServe Matrix Server VERITAS File System (VxFS) VERITAS Cluster File System (VxCFS) Lustre File System (Clustered File System) |
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Red Hat Linux 6.x |
GFS2 (Clustered File System) The default Extended 2 File System (ext2) gets archived when it is compiled as a module. |
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Novell OES2 Linux |
NSS File System |
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Solaris |
UNIX File System (UFS) VERITAS File System (VxFS) Zettabyte File System (ZFS on Solaris 10 6/06) |
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Mac |
Hierarchical File System (HFS) Hierarchical File System plus (HFS+) |
Note
For FreeBSD and Mac, the file system should be mounted with extended attribute option. If the extended attribute option is not enabled on the mount point, files will be backed up but not archived.
What is Not Archived
By default, system specific files and folders are filtered out from archive operations. However, to bypass this restriction, you can add the sSTUB_PRUNE_EXCEPTIONS additional setting, which specifies the path to archive. For more information, see Configuring System Files to Skip during an Archive Operation.
The following file objects are automatically filtered out from archive operations by the system:
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UNIX and Mac |
Sparse files (For example, file archiver stub files) Install directory Job Results directory Log files directory /usr system directory /kernel system directory /etc system directory /tmp directory Extended attributes in the OES Linux data Stubs originating from an NSS volume on an OES Linux computer Files with extensions *.a, *.ksh, *.csh, *.sh, *.lib, and *.so are automatically filtered out of the subclient content by default. Similarly, files in the following directories are also skipped from archiving: /usr/**, /bin/**, /lib/**, /boot/**, /dev/**, /etc/**, /var/**, /tmp/**, /sbin/**, /lib64/**, /opt/**, /sys/**, /kernel/**, /devices/**, /proc/**, /selinux/**, /stand/** |
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AIX |
/**/*.imp, /**/*.exp |
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FreeBSD |
/rescue/** |
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Solaris |
/platform/** |
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Mac |
/**/*.dylib, /**/*.scpt, /Applications/**, /Developer/**, /Library/**, /Network/**, /System/**, /Volumes/**, /private/** |