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Disks Supported by CA ARCserve D2D On Demand

Different types of disks are supported for CA ARCserve D2D On Demand backup source and destination disks. The following matrix lists the types of disks that are supported for each function.

Disk (Volume) Type

As Backup Source

As Backup Destination

GPT Disk

Yes

Yes

System Reserved Partition

(Windows 2008 R2 Boot Manger)

Yes

Not applicable

Mounted Volume

(No drive letter/NTFS formatted)

Yes

Yes

RAW Volume

(No drive letter/Not formatted)

No

No

VHD Mounted Volume

(Windows 2008 R2)

No

Yes

Dynamic Disk:

 

 
  • No RAID

Yes

Yes
  • Software RAID (RAID-0 (Stripe)

Yes

Yes
  • Software RAID (RAID-1 (Mirrored)

Yes

Yes
  • Software RAID-5

No

Yes

Hardware RAID (include Embedded RAID)

Yes

Yes

File System:

 

 
  • FAT/FAT32

No

Yes*

Shared Volume:

 

 
  • Windows Shared Volume

No

Yes
  • Linux Shared Volume (samba shared)

No

Yes

Device Type:

 

 
  • Removable Disk (Ex. Memory Stick, RDX)

No

Yes

 

Note: Any disk that appears as a local drive to a server protected by CA ARCserve D2D On Demand will also be protected. This includes any Fibre Channel (FC) attached Storage Area Network (SAN) disks, or iSCSI disks. For iSCSI disks, CA ARCserve D2D On Demand can protect system and data disks; however, iSCSI system disks are not supported for BMR. Therefore, you should only use iSCSI for data disks.

 

 

*

FAT/FAT32 cannot hold a single file larger than 4 GB. If after compression the CA ARCserve D2D On Demand file is larger than 4 GB (because the source is very large), the backup will fail.