Block-Level Backup - Support (Windows)

The following table lists the features that are supported for block-level backup.

Feature

Sub-Feature

Windows File System

Comments

Advanced Backup/Archive Options

Data tab - Catalog

tick

Data tab - Verify Synthetic Full

Job Retry tab

tick

Media tab - Allow other Schedule to use Media Set

tick

Media tab - Mark Media Full on Success

tick

Media tab - Reserve Resources Before Scan

tick

Media tab - Start New Media

tick

Startup tab

tick

Vault Tracking tab

tick

Comments

Advanced File System iDataAgent Options

On Demand Data Protection Operation

Restore Data Using a Map File

tick

Comments

tick

  • Only a mount point can be configured as subclient content.

  • Nested mount points are not supported. To back up nested mount points, add each nested mount point to a different subclient.

  • Enable Apple Double Support option is not supported.

  • Wildcards and soft links in the subclient content are not supported.

  • Automatic expansion of subclient content is not supported.

  • Filtering files from a backup is not supported.

  • On Demand Backup Sets are not supported for IntelliSnap backup.

Alerts and Monitoring

Global Alerts

tick

Job-Based Alerts*

tick

Comments

Automatic Updates

Automatic Updates

tick

Comments

Backup/Archive Options

Differential Backup

Full Backup

tick

Incremental Backup

tick

  • Configuring incremental backups using ctime and/or mtime is not supported.

  • Incremental backup job shows changed files if metadata collection is enabled.

Other Backup Types

Synthetic Full Backup

tick

The Run Incremental Backup option is not supported. You cannot run an incremental backup before or after a synthetic full backup.

Comments

tick

Browse

Browse from Copy Precedence

tick

Browse the Latest Data

tick

Browse Using Filters

tick

Supported if file indexing is enabled.

Exclude Data Before

Find

tick

Supported if file indexing is enabled.

Full Backup Transparent Browse

tick

Image Browse

tick

No Image Browse

Page Size

tick

Specify Browse Path

tick

Specify Browse Time

tick

Subclient Browse

tick

Use MediaAgent

tick

View All Versions

tick

Supported if file indexing is enabled.

Comments

tick

  • Live browse is supported from the backup set level.

  • Live browse is supported from a snap job provided that the snapshot is available and is in a mountable state.

  • Browse from the backup set level is supported if metadata collection is enabled.

  • Volume-level restore is supported only from the subclient level.

  • The Show Deleted Items option is not supported.

Clustering

Windows Cluster

tick

Comments

tick

Supported for Linux on Non-Veritas Cluster.

Command Line Interface

Command Line Interface

tick

Comments

Block-level subclient creation is not supported.

CommCell Migration

CommCell Migration

tick

Comments

tick

  • CommCell Migration is not supported with IntelliSnap backup when using Data Replicator storage array.

  • CommCell Migration is supported with Virtualize Me and 1-Touch restores.

Content Indexing

Offline Content Indexing

Comments

Data Aging

Basic Retention Rules

tick

Deleting a Job

tick

Extended Retention Rules

tick

Retaining a Job

tick

Unique Data Aging Rules

Comments

Data Compression

Client Compression

tick

Hardware Compression

tick

MediaAgent Compression

tick

Comments

Data Encryption

Data Encryption Support

tick

Third-party Command Line Encryption Support

tick

Comments

Data Multiplexing

Multiplexing

tick

Comments

tick

Multi-streaming is supported.

Deduplication

MediaAgent Deduplication

tick

Source Deduplication

tick

Comments

Delete Backup and Archive Data

Delete Data Using CommCell Console

Comments

Global Filters

Global Filters

Comments

Installation

Custom Package

tick

Decoupled Install

tick

Remote Install

tick

Restore Only Agents

Silent Install

tick

Comments

tick

Non-root user install is not supported.

Job Restart - Data Protection

Not Restartable

Restarts from the Beginning

Restarts from the Beginning of the Database

Restarts from the Point-of-Failure

tick

Comments

Job Restart - Data Recovery

Not Restartable

Restarts from the Beginning

Restarts from the Beginning of the Database

Restarts from the Point-of-Failure

tick

Not supported for volume-level restore from snap.

Comments

List Media

List Media Associated with a Specific Backup Set or Instance

List Media Associated with Index

List Media Associated with Specific Files and/or Folders

List Media Associated with Specific Jobs

Comments

tick

List Media is not supported irrespective of selecting metadata collection.

Optimized Scan

Optimized Scan

tick

Supported if metadata collection is enabled.

Comments

tick

  • System mount points like var, tmp and opt are not monitored.

  • Volume-level restore is not supported if the destination volume is monitored.

Pre/Post Processes

Pre/Post Process with Data Protection and Recovery

tick

Comments

Restore/Recover/Retrieve Destinations

Cross-Application Restores (Different Application version)

Cross-Platform Restores - Different Operating System

tick

File-level cross-platform restores to Windows are supported.

Cross-Platform Restores - Same Operating System - Different Version

tick

In-place Restore - Same path/ destination - Same Client

tick

Out-of-place Restore - Different path/ destination

tick

Out-of-place Restore - Same path/ destination - Different Client

tick

Restore Data Using a Map File

tick

Not supported for volume-level restore.

Restore to Network Drive /NFS-Mounted File System

tick

Comments

tick

Restore/Recover/Retrieve Options

Automatic Detection of Regular Expressions

tick

Filter Data From Recover Operations

tick

Rename/ Redirect Files on Restore

tick

Restore Data Using Wildcard Expressions

tick

Not supported with live browse.

Restore Data with Pre/Post Processes

tick

Restore from Copies

tick

Skip Errors and Continue

tick

Not supported for volume-level restore.

Use Exact Index

tick

Use MediaAgent

tick

Comments

tick

File-level restore is not supported for files with path names longer than 1024 bytes.

  • File system level hard links optimization during restores is not supported.

  • Impersonate user option is not supported for volume-level browse.

  • Monitor the progress of the job in the Job Controller.

  • To view details of the restore job, see Restore Job History.

Restore/Recover/Retrieve Overwrite Options

Overwrite Files

tick

Overwrite if file on media is newer

tick

Restore only if target exists

tick

Unconditional Overwrite

tick

Unconditionally overwrite only if target is a DataArchiver stub

Comments

Schedule Policy

Agent Specific Data Protection Schedule Policy

tick

All Agent Types Schedule Policy

tick

Comments

Storage Policies

Incremental Storage Policy*

Standard Storage Policies

tick

Comments

tick

Snap storage policy is required.

Subclient Policies

Subclient Policy

tick

Comments

tick

Not supported with block-level backups

Upgrade

Windows - Local

tick

Windows - Silent

tick

Upgrade from the CommCell Console

tick

Comments

User Administration and Security

Backup Set/Archive Set

tick

Instance

Subclient

tick

Comments

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