HP B6960-90078 manual Restoring Windows Systems

Restore

Restoring Windows Systems

Restoring Windows Systems

What Is Restored? When restoring a Windows filesystem, Data Protector restores the data within the files and directories, as well as Windows-specific information about the files and directories.

Consider the filesystem restore limitations when restoring to a different filesystem from the one where the backup was performed. See “Filesystem Limitations” on page 278.

The following Windows-specific information is restored:

•Full Unicode filenames

•FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, and NTFS attributes

Once a file has been backed up, its archive attribute is cleared. You can change this behavior by setting the Do not use archive attribute option in the Advanced filesystem backup options in the backup specification.

•NTFS alternate data streams

For example, Object IDs on Windows 2000 are backed up as sets of alternate data streams.

•NTFS security data

Additionally, the following applies on Windows systems, using NTFS 3.x:

•The NTFS filesystem supports reparse points.

The volume mount points, Single Instance Storage (SIS), and directory junctions are based on the reparse point concept. These reparse points are selected like any other filesystem object.

•The NTFS filesystem supports sparse files as an efficient way of reducing the amount of allocated disk space.

These files are backed up as sparse to save tape space. Sparse files are backed up and restored as sparse to the NTFS 3.x filesystem only.

•Some of the NTFS filesystem specific features are controlled by the system services, which maintain their own data records. These data structures are backed up as a part of CONFIGURATION.

•Encrypted files.

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