- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Preface
- PowerProtect Data Manager File System Agent Overview
- Enabling the File System Agent
- About the File System agent
- Application agent and File System agent coexistence
- File System agent prerequisites
- File System agent limitations
- Block-based backups
- Best practices for file system backups
- Configure the file system parallel backup setting
- Configure asset multi-streaming for file-based backups
- Protect an asset with the File System agent
- Protect an asset in a Microsoft Windows Server clustered environment with the File System agent
- Installing and uninstalling the File System agent on AIX
- Installing and updating the File System agent on Linux
- Installing and updating the File System agent on Windows
- Manage the File System agent
- Configure the centralized file-level restore service port number
- Update the application agent in the PowerProtect Data Manager UI
- Moving a File System agent from one PowerProtect Data Manager system to another
- Enable the File System agent after migrating File System assets to a refreshed server
- Managing Storage, Assets, and Protection
- Enable an asset source
- Discover a file system host
- Protection policies for File System agent
- Supported protection policy purposes
- Supported protection policy objectives
- File System replication triggers
- Roadmap for planning a protection policy
- Before you add a protection policy for file system protection
- Add a protection policy for file system protection
- Protection rules
- Cancel a File System agent backup or restore job
- Add a service-level agreement
- Extended retention for protection policies created in PowerProtect Data Manager 19.11 or earlier
- Edit the retention period for backup copies
- Delete backup copies
- Host CPU throttling
- Exclusion filters for File Systems
- Centralized restore of a file-system asset
- Updating the File System agent hostname or IP address
- Manage the PowerProtect agent service
- Performing Self-Service Backups and Restores with the File System Agent
- Performing Self-Service Backups and Restores for Disaster Recovery
- Performing Disaster Recovery with the File System Agent in Windows
- Disaster recovery limitations
- Preparing for disaster recovery
- Performing system-state recovery
- Recovering the Active Directory
- Performing bare-metal recovery
- Perform bare-metal recovery of Windows clusters
- Disaster recovery solution for Microsoft SQL application data
- Protecting Microsoft Distributed File System using BMR and SSR
- Performing application restores after bare-metal recovery
- File System Best Practices and Troubleshooting
- Glossary
PowerProtect Data Manager 19.14 File System User Guide
Introducing the File System agent
The File System agent enables an application administrator to protect and recover the File System agent application data on the application host. PowerProtect Data Manager integrates with the File System agent to check and monitor backup compliance against protection policies. PowerProtect Data Manager also enables central scheduling for backups.
You can install the File System agent on AIX, Linux, or Windows. See Enabling the File System Agent.
NOTE:
PowerProtect Data Manager supports the coexistence of the Microsoft application agent and the File System agent on Windows. When a volume includes any application database and log files:
- File System agent block-based backups of the volume automatically exclude the database and log files from the file system backup.
- File System agent file-based backups of the volume do not automatically exclude the database and log files, but you can explicitly exclude those files through the exclusion filters in the policy. It is recommended that you exclude the application database and log files from file system backups if you use the corresponding application agent to back up the files.
In both cases, File System agent backups do not involve any database writer, regardless of whether or not the database and log files are excluded. The backups do not interfere with the database backup chaining.
To enable the discovery and scheduling of backups with PowerProtect Data Manager, you must approve the client in the PowerProtect Data Manager UI. Manage the File System agent provides more information.
Software compatibility information for the PowerProtect Data Manager software and application agents is provided by the E-Lab Navigator.
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