Backup limitations

The following limitations apply when running backup jobs:

• By default, NFS-mounted filesystems are not backed up. If your system experiences problems with any NFS-mounted filesystems at the same time that you are running a backup job, ARCserveIT will not be able to determine the nature of these filesystems and will report a Failed to Access Source Directory error in the activity log.

  If you do not want to back up NFS filesystems, you can safely ignore these error messages -- your backup jobs are complete. If, however, you want to include the NFS filesystems in your backup job, you will need to rerun the operation.

• If a CD-ROM is mounted on your system and the mount point is selected as part of a backup job, the entire contents of the CD-ROM will be backed up. This is probably an unnecessary use of tape.

  To avoid this, either make sure that all CD-ROMs are unmounted before starting a backup, or do not select the CD-ROM mount point(s) for backup.