The Commvault file archiving solution for Windows File System enables you to move data to a secondary storage and use it to function as an archive copy.
Supported Protocols
Server Message Block (SMB) 1.0 protocol
SMB 2.x protocol
SMB 3.xx protocol
What is Archived
Operating System
Supported File Systems
Windows
Local Volumes
Dynamic Disks
Local Files and Folders
Replication volumes for Windows 2016 and Windows 2019.
Mount points to volumes
Windows 8, Windows 2012, Windows 2016, and Windows 2019 on ReFS volumes
Non-deduplicated data that resides on a Windows deduped volume
Compressed Files
Microsoft Non-Content Indexed and Content Indexed files
Data that resides on Cluster Shared Volume File System for Windows 2012 and Windows 2012 R2 computers.
New Technology File Systems (NTFS)
Recursive Scan method is used to back up and archive the data on the Cluster Shared Volume File System.
What is Not Archived
The following file objects are automatically filtered out of archive operations by the system:
Windows
Install folder
Job Results folder
Index cache folder
Log files folder
Windows system32 folder
UNIX data residing on Windows share
Files with attributes of encrypted or sparse
Files with attributes of hidden and system
Files that are deduped by Microsoft
Files with certain extended attributes such as Offline, Encryption, and Sparse files.
Note: With the barchiveEAfiles additional setting, all EA files are archived.
