# What Is Backed Up for UNIX File Servers?

You can backup the data that resides on your client computer and restore it when required.

## AIX File System

Component | What Is Backed Up
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Supported File Systems Enhanced Journal File System (JFS2) General Parallel File System (GPFS) Journal File System (JFS) Oracle ASM Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) VERITAS File System (VxFS) | File System Elements Files with holes Raw device files Files with Advisory locks Files with names containing non-ASCII characters as long as the appropriate locales are set Shares with Macintosh File System data Symbolic links that are browsed or manually added to the data contents Files for which the file path or file name contains more than 1023 characters Note Files with mandatory locks are not backed up by default.
Supported Volume Managers Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) 5.0 or higher Logical Volume Manager (LVM) |

## FreeBSD File System

Component | What Is Backed Up
--- | ---
Supported File Systems Unix File System (UFS) Zettabyte File System (ZFS) | File System Elements Files with holes Files with Advisory Locks Raw device files 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 Files for which the file path or file name contains more than 1024 characters Note Files with mandatory locks are not backed up by default.

## HP-UX File System

Component | What Is Backed Up
--- | ---
Supported File Systems Hierarchical File System (HFS) Journal File System (JFS) Unix File System (UFS) VERITAS File System (VxFS) VERITAS Cluster File System (VxCFS) Extended attributes in the VxFS and UFS file systems | File System Elements Files with holes Files with Advisory Locks Raw device files 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 Files for which the file path or file name contains more than 1024 characters Note Files with mandatory locks are not backed up by default.
Supported Volume Managers Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) 5.0 or higher Logical Volume Manager (LVM) |

## Linux File System

Component | What Is Backed Up
--- | ---
Supported File Systems B-tree File System (Btrfs) Fraunhofer FS (FhGFS or BeeGFS) Extended 2 File System (ext2) Extended 3 File System (ext3) Extended 4 File System (ext4) Fujitsu Exabyte File System (FEFS) General Parallel File System (GPFS) Global File System (GFS/GFS2) GlusterFS File System (GlusterFS)* Lustre File System (Clustered File System) Moose File System (MooseFS) Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS2) Oracle ASM Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) Panasas ActiveScale File System (PanFS) Reiser File System (reiserfs) VERITAS File System (VxFS) VERITAS Cluster File System (VxCFS) X9000 IBRIX File System (IBRIXFS) 6.x 'X' File System (XFS) *Backups and restores run on the Gluster client | File System Elements Files with holes Raw device files Files with Advisory locks Files with names containing non-ASCII characters as long as the appropriate locales are set Shares with Macintosh File System data Symbolic links that are browsed or manually added to the data contents Files for which the file path or file name contains more than 1023 characters Note Files with mandatory locks are not backed up by default.
Supported Volume Managers Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) 5.0 or higher Logical Volume Manager (LVM) |

## Solaris File System

Component | What Is Backed Up
--- | ---
Supported File Systems Unix File System (UFS) Oracle ASM Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) VERITAS File System (VxFS) VERITAS Cluster File System (VxCFS) Zettabyte File System (ZFS) Extended attributes in the VxFS, UFS, and ZFS file systems | File System Elements Files with holes Files with Advisory Locks Raw device files as file nodes 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 Shares with Macintosh File System data Files for which the file path or file name contains more than 1024 characters Note Files with mandatory locks are not backed up by default.
Supported Volume Managers Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) 5.0 or higher Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) |

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