Consider the following when protecting CIFS/NFS NAS devices:
| • | Full, differential, and selective backups are supported for CIFS/NFS clients. Incrementals are not supported. |
| • | Enterprise backups are not supported for CIFS/NFS clients. When you enter the Enterprise backup subsystem, all CIFS/NFS clients are disabled in the Navigation pane. |
| • | Backups start at the NAS mount point. Therefore, it is not necessary to apply exclusion lists to keep files in other system directories from being included in the NAS backup. |
| • | When you mount the CIFS/NFS NAS device to the backup system, open files do not get backup up. For this reason, backups of CIFS/NFS clients should be scheduled to run when file activity is at its lowest level. |
| • | Permissions of the files as seen when mapped to the system are not exactly the same as those on the CIFS/NFS NAS device. |