To increase availability, recoverability, and performance, Veritas File System offers on-disk and online backup and restore capabilities that facilitate frequent and efficient backup strategies. Backup and restore applications can leverage a Storage Checkpoint, a disk- and I/O-efficient copying technology for creating periodic frozen images of a file system. Storage Checkpoints present a view of a file system at a point in time, and subsequently identifies and maintains copies of the original file system blocks. Instead of using a disk-based mirroring method, Storage Checkpoints save disk space and significantly reduce I/O overhead by using the free space pool available to a file system.

Storage Checkpoint functionality is separately licensed.

See About Storage Checkpoints.