File System

General

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

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

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