# File System

## General

Storware Backup & Recovery is able to protect file systems mounted on its nodes. Both full and incremental backups are supported.

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**Note:**

* Storware Backup & Recovery scans for file system changes based on the modification time and size of the file with each incremental backup.
* only regular files, symlinks, and directories are going to be backup
* for file systems, Storware Backup & Recovery currently builds images for each backup before uploading data to the specific backup provider, so it doesn't have to upload objects one-by-one - these images will be merged automatically in restore tasks
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Complete the following steps to add the file system storage provider.

1. Go to `Storage` -> `Infrastructure` and click `Add Storage Provider`
2. Choose `File system` as a type and select the node responsible for backup operations
3. Click `Save` - now you can define file systems in the `Storage` -> `Instances` view