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- Centralized file system backup and recovery (volume and file level) through Data Manager
- Self-service file system backup and file-level recovery (volume and file level) using command-line utility
- Block-based and File-based file system support for file system workloads. For more details on file system workloads compatibility, see PowerProtect Data Manager support matrix
- Supports centralized file level restores of block-based file system backups.
- File level restore from Data Manager UI
- Support restore to original or alternate host for file-based backups
- Creation of separate directory to separate the restore files
- Support for backup of Non-LVM or physical disks
- Supports exclusion of files and folders from file system backups through use of file exclusion
- Data Manager provides support to run file system backups in parallel to reduce the time taken for backups
- No excessive metadata generation and PowerProtect DD series appliances Active Tier storage consumption has been optimized for file-based backups
- Automated host agent configuration during policy creation
- Flexibility to define and assign exclusion filter to file system protection policy for excluding certain files and folders
- Encryption over the wire (EOW) of file system backup and restore data - Data Manager provides EOW of data during some backup and restore operations. If enabled, encryption is automatically applied to file system workloads
- Data Manager File System Agent supports the Microsoft System State Recovery (SSR), Active Directory Restore, and bare-metal recovery (BMR) disaster-recovery mechanisms
- Data Manager File System agent now allows the selection of clustered drives and logical cluster hosts as assets and asset sources
- All the Linux mount points, such as ext3, ext4, XFS, ZFS and BTRFS can be discovered and protected even if they are not listed in the /etc/fstab entry
- PowerProtect Data Manager supports indexing of ZFS, XFS, BTRFS, and ReFS backup for the File Based Backup (FBB) mechanism.