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  2. NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
  3. Section XII. Administering NetBackup
  4. Managing client backups and restores
  5. About backups and restores on ReFS
NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide

About backups and restores on ReFS

Microsoft Resilient File System (ReFS) support in NetBackup is automatic and requires no additional configuration.

NetBackup does not support a redirected restore of a Microsoft Resilient File Systems (ReFS) file system.

Table: ReFS backup and restore lists the ReFS-to-NTFS backup and restore combinations and the success of each.

Table: ReFS backup and restore

Between file systems

Backups

Restores

ReFS to ReFS

Successful

Successful

ReFS to NTFS

Successful

Successful

NTFS to ReFS

Successful

Limited success

For successful restores:

  • Restore NTFS backups to NTFS file system.

  • Remove all non-supported ReFS items.

  • Copy the files to an ReFS file system.

Known issue

A known issue exists that includes failures with respect to backups for files having ReFS based snapshot. At present Microsoft does not support backup of files having ReFS based snapshot as the API's are not compatible. Microsoft is working on documenting this behavior and providing support which are tracked with the following issue ID's:

  • Documentation issue#: 42324557

  • Backup Read issue#: 42295538

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