Backing up your data
Use the backup-archive client to store backup versions of your files on the IBM® Storage Protect server. You can restore these backup versions if the original files are lost or damaged.
Unless otherwise specified, references to Windows refer to all supported Windows operating
systems.
The client provides backup and archive services for all files on the following
file systems: File Allocation Table (FAT), FAT 32, NTFS, and ReFS.
The following is a list of primary backup tasks that you can run from the backup-archive client:
- Planning your backups (Windows)
Planning your backups- Pre-backup considerations (Windows)
- Pre-backup considerations (UNIX and Linux)
- Incremental, selective, or incremental-by-date backups (Windows)
- Performing an incremental, selective, or incremental-by-date backup (UNIX and Linux)
- Deleting backup data
- Deleting backup data
- Backing up files from one or more file spaces for a group backup (Windows)
- Backing up files from one or more file spaces for a group backup (UNIX and Linux)
- Backing up Windows system state
- Backing up Automated System Recovery files
- Image backup
- Back up NAS file systems using Network Data Management Protocol
- Preparing the environment for full backups of VMware virtual machines
- Backing up Net Appliance CIFS share definitions
You can also back up and restore only files and directories
remotely by using the web user interface.