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The File System Agent provides support for protecting the Windows clustered file system. With this feature, customers can use the File System Agent to protect their clustered disks, like the regular file system drives.
Both BBB and FBB are supported for Windows clustered disk protection. During the failover, the backup will continue through the node that owns the cluster disks. This prevents administrators from having to manually reconfigure for data protection continuity.
The following figure shows the Application Agents view for the Windows cluster nodes registered with Data Manager.
The above cluster nodes registered with Data Manager discover the clustered disks as assets, as shown below.
A file system protection policy can be created to back up the cluster assets, in the same way of protecting the regular file system drives.
Backup copies available for Windows cluster assets.
Once the backup is successful, Data Manager provides the option to perform FLR and Image level restore to the original, or to an alternate location, from the backup copy.