PowerProtect Data Manager 19.10 File System User Guide

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Block-based backups

Block-based backups provide instant access to the backups. The block-based backups enable you to mount the backups by using the same file systems that you used to back up the data.

The File System agent's block-based backups support the following capabilities:

  • Mounting of a backup as a file system
  • Mounting of an incremental backup
  • Sparse backup support
  • Backups of operating system-deduplicated file systems as source volumes on Windows
  • Forever virtual full backups to DD
  • DD retention lock
  • Recoveries from DD

Block-based backups are useful for datasets that are under 10 TB with a single volume under 5 TB, and a daily change rate under 5%.

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