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Disk Supported by Arcserve UDP Agent (Linux)

Different types of disks are supported for Arcserve UDP Agent (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

Swap

No

Not applicable

GPT Disk:

 

 
  • GPT (GUID Partition Table) Data Disk

Yes

Yes
  • GPT (GUI Partition Table) Boot Disk

No

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

Shared Volume:

 

 
  • Windows Shared Volume

No

Yes
  • Windows NFS 3.0 Share Volume

No

Yes
  • Linux Shared Volume (samba shared)

No

Yes
  • Linux NFS Share

No

Yes

Device Type:

 

 
  • Removable Disk (Ex. Memory Stick, RDX)

Yes

Yes

*1

Fake RAID, also called Embedded RAID, provided by the BIOS on the motherboard is not supported by Arcserve UDP Agent (Linux).

*2

LVM (Logical Volume Manager) is not supported on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10, but is supported on SLES 10 SP1 to SP4.

Embedded LVM is not supported.