vRanger 7.7.1 - Installation/Upgrade Guide

Supported disk types and file systems

Supported disk types and file systems

The following topics list the disk types and file systems supported by .

Supported disk types

Supported disk types

The following table details the support status of the listed disk types for the documented functions.

 

Table 9. Supported disk types

Disk types	Backup and restore	Catalog	File-level restore (FLR)
Windows virtual machines (VMs)
MBR	Supported	Supported	Supported
GPT	Supported	Supported	Supported1
Dynamic	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
Windows physical machines
MBR	Supported	Supported	Supported
GPT	Supported	Supported	Supporteda
Dynamic	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported
Linux virtual machines (VMs)2
LVM	Supported	Not supported	Supported
MBR	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
GPT	Supported	Not supported	Supported
Dynamic	Supported	Not supported	Not supported

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1

FLR supported for 2012 or later systems only when performing FLR on 2012 or newer systems. Older systems may not show data on GPT disks.

2

FLR for Hyper-V Linux VMs is not supported.

Supported file systems

Supported file systems

The following table details the support status of the listed file systems for the documented functions.

 

Table 10. Supported file systems

File system types	Backup and restore	Catalog	File-level restore (FLR)
Windows virtual machines (VMs)
NTFS	Supported	Supported	Supported
FAT32	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
exFAT	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
ReiserFS1	Supported	Not supported	Supporteda2
Windows physical machines
NTFS	Supported	Supported	Supported
FAT32	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
exFAT	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
ReiserFSa	Supported	Not supported	Supportedab
Linux virtual machines (VMs)
ext2	Supported	Not supported	Supported
ext3	Supported	Not supported	Supported
ext4	Supported	Not supported	Supported
JFS	Supported	Not supported	Supported
XFS	Supported	Not supported	Supported
ReiserFS	Supported	Not supported	Supported
LVM (one physical disk)	Supported	Not supported	Supported

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1

FLR is not supported on ReFS on Windows Server 2019.

2

FLR supported for 2012 and 2016 systems only when performing FLR on 2012 or 2016 systems.

Feature-level requirements

Feature-level requirements

Some features and functions have requirements or limitations that do not apply to the rest of the product. Review this list to ensure that all requirements are understood. The features and functions described here are:

•	Standard backup, restore, and replication

•	Physical backup and restore

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•	File-level restore (FLR): Windows

•	FLR: Linux

•	Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)