- 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 protection
- 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
- Asset-level configuration for protection policies
- Protection rules
- Cancel a File System agent backup or restore job
- Add a service-level agreement
- Extended retention for protection policies
- Edit the retention period for backup copies
- Delete asset backup copies
- Host CPU throttling
- Enable the use of pre-scripts and post-scripts with backups
- File Filters
- Centralized restore of a file-system asset
- Quick recovery for server DR
- Updating the File System agent hostname or IP address
- Reregister the agent after a PowerProtect Data Manager server hostname or IP address change
- 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
- Deleting temporary files after bare-metal recovery
- Performing Active Directory Data Recovery at a Granular Level
- File System Best Practices and Troubleshooting
- Glossary
PowerProtect Data Manager 19.16 File System User Guide
Discover a File System Host
Perform the following steps to discover a file system host as an asset source in the PowerProtect Data Manager UI.
About this task
Using PowerProtect Data Manager, you can discover and protect all the Linux mount points like ext3, ext4, XFS, and ZFS even if they are not listed in the /etc/fstab entry.
NOTE:PowerProtect Data Manager supports indexing of ZFS, XFS, BTRFS, and ReFS backup for File Based Backup (FBB) mechanism.
Steps
- Select
.
The Asset Sources window appears.
- Select the agent host tab.
- Select the file system host and click
Discover.
The Initiate Discovery dialog appears with an option to immediately start a full discovery of the assets on the host.NOTE:
- From the agent host tab, you can click Discover at any time if any additions or other changes to your asset sources have taken place outside of the PowerProtect Data Manager environment. Asset discovery is also initiated by default after registration of the host to PowerProtect Data Manager and at hourly intervals. Discovery time is based on networking bandwidth. Each time you initiate a discovery process, the resources that are discovered and those that are handling the discovery impact system performance.
- Use a unique combination of a hostname (FQDN) and asset name while discovering assets. Asset discovery fails when the same hostname (FQDN) is used for more than one agent.
- Click Yes.
Results
NOTE:
- PowerProtect Data Manager does not support indexing of XFS, backed up using Block Based Backup (BBB) mechanism.
- When the File System asset source is configured correctly, you can add the file system assets to a PowerProtect Data Manager protection policy. Go to , and then select the File Systems tab.
- Use
to switch between a list view of all file system assets for all of the discovered File System hosts and a hierarchical view of assets within each File System host that has been discovered in
PowerProtect Data Manager.
- Ignore inaccessible assets using a flag during asset source discovery. Create a file with the name
.ddfssv.fsagentconfig in the following location and add the
--ignore-inaccessible-assets=true flag to the
ddfssv.fsagentconfig file.
- For Windows - C:\Program Files\DPSAPPS\fsagent\settings
- For Linux and AIX - /opt/dpsapps/fsagent/settings
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