# Lustre

You can use the Commvault software to back up and restore Lustre.

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## Backups

### Data You Can Back Up

- Files

- Folders

### Backups You Can Perform

- Full backups

- Incremental backups

- Synthetic full backups

### When You Can Perform Backups

- On a schedule: The backup plan that you assign manages scheduled backups

- On demand: You can perform on-demand backups at any time

## Restores

### Backups You Can Use for Restores

- The most recent backup: For example, restore the most recent backup to its original location

- A backup from a specific date: For example, restore data to a point in time before it became unusable

- Backups from a date range: For example, restore data that was accidentally deleted

### Destinations You Can Restore To

- The current location (in place)

- A different folder on the same file server (out of place)

- A different file server (out of place)

## File Striping during Restores

- Default behavior:

  - Lustre backup data restored to Lustre will be restored with the stripe information that the data had originally.

  - Non-Lustre backup data restored to Lustre will inherit the destination stripe information.

- Optional setting on the access node(s) performing the recovery (LustreRestoreStripeInformationFromBackup set to 0)

  - Lustre backup data restored to Lustre will inherit the destination stripe information.

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