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File Archiving

You can use the Commvault software to model what-if scenarios using custom rules to intelligently identify stale data, create an archiving plan based on those rules, and regain disk space on a NAS server.

The archiving operation archives the files, and then deletes them from the source CIFS and NFS shares on the NAS server.

The data is archived up to the storage location that is specified by an archive plan.

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)

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)

FreeBSD

Unix File System (UFS)

Zettabyte File System (ZFS)

HP-UX

VERITAS File System (VxFS)

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)

Novell OES2 Linux

NSS File System

Solaris

UNIX File System (UFS)

VERITAS File System (VxFS)

Zettabyte File System (ZFS on Solaris 10 6/06)

What is Not Archived

The following file objects are automatically filtered out of archive operations by the system:

Operating System

Filtered components

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.

  • The following files are excluded from archiving:

    • *.dll, *.bat, *.exe, *.cur, *.ico, *.lnk

UNIX

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/**

AIX

/**/*.imp, /**/*.exp

FreeBSD

/rescue/**

Solaris

/platform/**
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