Backup

 

Backing Up Windows Systems

 

• NTFS alternate data streams

 

• NTFS security data

 

 

NOTE

The sharing properties of a folder are not stored in the filesystem and are

 

not backed up within filesystem backup. Information about shares is

 

stored in the registry and is backed up and restored within

 

CONFIGURATION backup object.

 

 

What Is Not

In the backup specification, you can specify the files to be excluded from

Backed Up?

or skipped by the backup. The list of these files is also known as a

 

private exclusion list.

 

See “Object Options” on page 239 and online Help for more information

 

on how to exclude or skip files and directories.

 

In addition to the private exclusion list, Data Protector by default

 

excludes the following:

 

• The <Data_Protector_home>\log and

 

<Data_Protector_home>\tmp directories from a Windows client or

 

Cell Manager backup.

 

• The <Data_Protector_home>\db40 directory from a Windows Cell

 

Manager backup.

 

For example, the <Data_Protector_home>\db40 directory is

 

excluded from the Cell Manager backup even though it was selected

 

in the backup specification. This is because the

 

<Data_Protector_home>\db40 directory contains the IDB, which

 

must be backed up in a special way to ensure data consistency. See

 

“Configuring the Database Backup” on page 398 for details.

 

The skipped file is the Pagefile.sys system file. Before starting a

 

backup, Data Protector reads the list of excluded and skipped files from

 

the following Registry keys:

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Hewlett-Packard\OpenView

 

\\OmniBack II\Agents\FileSystem\Exclude

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Hewlett-Packard\OpenView

 

\\OmniBack II\Agents\FileSystem\Skip

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