Disks Supported by Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows)
Different types of disks are supported for Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows) backup source and destination disks. The following matrix lists the types of disks that are supported for each function.
| BMR Support | ||||
|
Disk (Volume) Type |
As Backup or File Copy Source |
As Backup Destination |
Data Volume |
System and Boot Volume |
|
System Reserved Partition |
Yes*2 | Not applicable | Not applicable | Yes |
|
Mounted Volume (No drive letter/NTFS formatted) |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
|
RAW Volume (No drive letter/Not formatted) |
No | No | No | No |
|
VHD and VHDX Mounted Volume |
No | Yes*5 | No | No |
| GPT Disk: | ||||
| GPT (GUID Partition Table) Data Disk | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not applicable |
| GPT (GUI Partition Table) Boot Disk | Yes – R16 Update 5 or higher required | Yes – Not recommended to put Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows) backups on boot disk | Yes | Yes |
| Dynamic Disk: | ||||
|
Yes | Yes | Yes*6 | Yes*3, *4 |
|
Yes | Yes | Yes*6 | Not applicable |
|
Yes | Yes | Yes*6 | No |
|
No | Yes | No | Not applicable |
|
Hardware RAID (include Embedded RAID) |
Yes | Yes | Yes*4 | |
| File System: | ||||
|
No | Yes*1 | No | No |
|
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
|
Backup: Yes File Copy: No |
Yes | Yes | Not applicable |
|
Backup: Yes File Copy: No |
Yes | Yes | Not applicable |
|
Backup: Yes File Copy: No |
Yes | Yes | Not applicable |
| Shared Volume: | ||||
| Windows Shared Volume | No | Yes | No | No |
| Linux Shared Volume (samba shared) | No | Yes | No | No |
| Device Type: | ||||
|
No | Yes | No | No |
Notes:
- Any non-removable disk that appears as a local drive to a server protected by Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows) will also be protected. This includes any Fibre Channel (FC) attached Storage Area Network (SAN) disks, or iSCSI disks. For iSCSI disks, Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows) can protect system and data disks; however, iSCSI system disks are not supported for BMR. Therefore, you should only use iSCSI for data disks.
- Supported file copy destinations include Amazon S3, Fujitsu Cloud (Windows Azure), Eucalyptus-Walrus, and NTFS local or network volumes (could be on iSCSI).
- MSCS Shared Volume and CSV are not supported.
*1 FAT/FAT32 cannot hold a single file larger than 4 GB. If after compression the Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows) file is larger than 4 GB (because the source is very large), the backup will fail.
* 2 For Agent-based backup job, Arcserve UDP supports backing up UEFI system boot partition (FAT32 volume), but does not support backing up other FAT32 data volume.
*3 Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows) supports BIOS and UEFI systems.
*4 A spanned volume cannot be used as a boot volume.
*5 The VHD mounted volume used as the backup destination should not reside on a volume which is selected as the backup source.
*6 When your system has multiple dynamic disks, BMR can fail. But, as long as the system volume is on a basic disk, the system should be able to boot. You can perform a restore of dynamic disks after the system has booted, by using the How to Restore Files/Folders procedure.