Windows file system backups
Note:
The following section is applicable for NetBackup master server 8.1 or later and NetBackup client 8.0 or later.
The protected data for Windows file system backups is defined as the size of the data for the pathnames or the directives that are defined in the policy. Licensing for the Windows backup is specific to an MS-Windows policy. It does not support the Windows clients or servers that are backed up using any virtualization policy, such as VMware and HyperV.
Snapshot-based backups are supported on all the versions of Windows servers and clients with various features of NetBackup such as multistreaming, Accelerator, compression, and so on.
Administrators can use the following to verify the size that the accurate licensing method reports.
Dir
Lists the files on the system folders and their sizes.
- Get-ChildItem C:\test1 | Measure-Object -property length -sum
PowerShell command to get folder size.
Size information from Windows Explorer.
To compare the data size that is reported in the capacity license report:
Use the file system commands to the calculate size of each drive. In the capacity license report, the files that are mentioned in the exclude list are not used to calculate protected data.
NetBackup creates the xml files of backup data under
logs\BEDSfolder and lists the files that are backed up and excluded from backup.NetBackup creates the xml files of backup data under
logs\BEDSfolder and lists the files that are backed up and excluded from backup.Use the file system commands.