Disk Supported by Arcserve Unified Data Protection Agent for Linux

Different types of disks are supported for Arcserve Unified Data Protection Agent for Linux backup source and backup disks. The following matrix lists the types of disks that are supported for each function.

Backup and BMR Support

Disk (Volume) Type

As Backup Source

As Backup Destination

Mounted Volume

(Traditional Disk Partition and LVM *2)

Yes

Yes

RAW Volume

(Not formatted)

No

No

Encrypted Volume

No

No

Swap

No

Not applicable

GPT Disk:

  • GPT (GUID Partition Table) Data Disk

Yes

Yes
  • GPT (GUI Partition Table) Boot Disk

Yes

Not applicable

RAID Disk *1:

  • Software RAID (RAID-0 (Stripe) )

Yes

Yes
  • Software RAID (RAID-1 (Mirrored) )

Yes

Yes
  • Software RAID-5

Yes

Yes
  • Hardware RAID (include Embedded RAID)

Yes

Yes

File System:

  • EXT2

Yes

Yes
  • EXT3

Yes

Yes
  • EXT4

Yes

Yes
  • Reiserfs Version 3

Yes

Yes
  • XFS *3

Yes

Yes
  • Btrfs *4

Yes

Yes

Shared Volume:

  • Windows Shared Volume

(CIFS share)

Not Applicable

Yes
  • Linux Shared Volume (samba shared)

No

Yes
  • Linux NFS Share

No

Yes

Device Type:

  • Removable Disk (For example, Memory Stick, RDX)

Yes

Yes

*1

Fake RAID, also called Embedded RAID, provided by the BIOS on the motherboard is not supported by Arcserve Unified Data Protection Agent for Linux.

*2

Embedded LVM is not supported by Arcserve Unified Data Protection Agent for Linux. The Embedded LVM refers to the implementation of Logical Volume Management within an embedded system of the Hardware provided by the manufacturer.

*3

File level restore for higher version of XFS is not supported on a Linux backup server that has a lower version of XFS. Such as, performing file-level restore for XFS on RHEL7.X is not supported on RHEL6.x as the backup server. But, you can instead use Live CD as a temporary Backup server to perform file-level restore.

Note: Redhat Enterprise Linux 8, CentOS 8 and Oracle Linux 8 have limitations that cannot support BMR, IVM and AR for XFS filesystem in Arcserve UDP 7.0 U1 build.

*4

File level restore for btrfs based file systems (SLES servers) is not supported on CentOS 8.0 and RHEL 8.0 LBS (Linux Backup Server).

File level restore on source machine is not supported (For example, install Linux Backup Server on machine A, back up machine A, and then run restore from A’s recovery point on machine A).

File/folder filter is not supported.

File system balance/scrub process will be canceled at the beginning of backup.

BTRFS RAID support: RAID-0 and RAID-1.

Volume filter UI: Only primary volume is displayed. This is not a limitation, but expected behavior.