Perform a Backup
Once the storage policy is configured, you are ready to perform your first backup.
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From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | File System | defaultBackupSet.
Right-click the default subclient and click Backup.

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Click Full as backup type and then click Immediate.
Click OK.

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You can track the progress of the job from the Job Controller window of the CommCell console.

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Once the job is complete, view the job details from the Backup History. Right-click the Subclient and select Backup History.

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Click OK.

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You can right-click the job and view the following details:
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Items that failed during the job
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Details of the job
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Events of the job
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Log files of the job
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Media associated with the job

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What Gets Backed Up |
What Does Not Get Backed Up |
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File Systems Hierarchical File System (HFS) HFS+, Universal Disk Format (UDF) MS-DOS Universal File System (UFS) |
By default, the following file systems are automatically skipped during backups:
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File System Elements Raw device files 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 Files for which the file path or file name contains more than 1024 characters Finder tags |