This tutorial mainly introduces how to backup and restore ReFS (Resilient File System) partition in intelligent sector backup mode with Hasleo Backup Suite, including the following key topics:
ReFS, which stands for Resilient File System, is a modern file system introduced by Microsoft starting with Windows Server 2012. It is not designed to directly replace the traditional NTFS but instead focuses on meeting the specific needs of large-scale data storage, particularly in scenarios like data centers, virtualized environments, and software-defined storage. Its core design revolves around data integrity, scalability, and automatic repair capabilities. The key features of ReFS are as follows:
✦ Resilience First: Generates checksums for all data, capable of automatically detecting and repairing data corruption when Storage Spaces are configured.
✦ Massive Scalability: Supports extremely large partition and files (theoretically up to 35 PB), easily handling massive data storage.
✦ Performance Optimization: Offers features like block cloning, which can significantly accelerate virtual machine operations and file copy tasks.
In summary, ReFS is Microsoft's next-generation file system designed to address modern data challenges. With data integrity and massive scalability at its core, it provides a solid and reliable foundation for business-critical data and large-scale storage through automated error detection and repair mechanisms. While it will not completely replace NTFS in the consumer space, ReFS is playing an increasingly important role in enterprise and cloud infrastructure fields.
Despite the inherent resilience of ReFS, backing up ReFS partition remains absolutely essential. The reason is that ReFS primarily guards against specific types of data risks and cannot replace the broader protection offered by traditional backups. Here are the core reasons why backing up ReFS partition is necessary:
✦ Protection against human error: ReFS cannot prevent data loss caused by accidental deletion, ransomware, or software failures. It faithfully preserves the current state of data, even if that state is incorrect.
✦ Protection against catastrophic failures: ReFS itself cannot protect data during large-scale hardware failures exceeding its redundancy capacity, or during disasters like fires, floods, or site-level outages.
✦ Compliance requirements: Backups provide historical versioning and long-term archiving capabilities, which are crucial for data retention and recovery but are not features of ReFS.
In summary, ReFS ensures "high availability" for minor issues, while backups guarantee "recoverability" for major disasters.
Hasleo Backup Suite is a backup software specifically designed for Windows PCs and servers. As a professional Windows backup solution, it allows you to easily back up and restore Windows operating systems, disks, partitions, and files. In addition to its core backup and restore capabilities, Hasleo Backup Suite offers a wide range of advanced features to help you manage backup tasks and image files efficiently. Most importantly, Hasleo Backup Suite now supports ReFS partition, enabling fast backup and restoration of ReFS partition in intelligent sector backup mode.
For backup software that does not support ReFS, it can only use the sector-by-sector backup mode to back up all data blocks of the entire partition. In contrast, using the intelligent sector backup mode to back up ReFS partition brings significant benefits, as only the data blocks actually used by the file system are backed up, this greatly improves efficiency and reduces storage space consumption.
Step 1. Install and run Hasleo Backup Suite, click "Backup" button in the navigation bar, then click "Disk/Partition Backup" button in the operation area.
Step 2. Select the ReFS partition that you want to back up, and modify the task name, description, destination and backup options according to your needs, and then click the "Proceed" button.
* Task name: Specify a task name so that you can quickly find and manage the backup task.
* Description: Briefly describe the purpose of the task and other information.
* Destination: The destination path where the backup image files will be stored, modify it by clicking the folder icon.
* Backup options: Advanced backup settings. For more details, please refer to Backup options.
* Backup schedule: Set up backup schedules to automatically perform the backup task on a regular basis. For more details, please refer to Backup schedule.
Step 3. After clicking the "Proceed" button, Hasleo Backup Suite starts backing up the partition you selected. Please note that the backup time is related to the size of the data that needs to be backed up, so please be patient.
* Priority: Set the priority of the backup process.
* Check image: Check the integrity of the backup image files after the backup is complete.
* Power plan: Perform the power management action after the backup is complete.
Step 1. Click "Home" button in the navigation bar, then click the "Actions" => "Restore" button on the backup task you want to restore.
Step 2. Select the backup version and the parition you want to restore, then click the "Next" button.
Step 3. Select the destination location you want to restore the partition to, then click "Next".
* The Restore to original location option can help you restore the partition to its original location on the original disk and ensure that other partitions on the disk will not be destroyed.
* The Delta restore option reduces the time required for a restore operation because it restores only the blocks that have been changed on the target drive.
Step 4. Adjust the size and location of the partition according to your needs, then click "Proceed".
* Disk alignment:
* The Sector by sector restore partition option enables you to restore the content in backup image to destination partition sector by sector.
Step 5. Hasleo Backup Suite began restoring the partition to the destination disk. Please note that the time required for restore operation is related to the size of the data that needs to be restored, so please be patient.
* Priority: Set the priority of the restore process.
* Power plan: Perform the power management action after the restore is complete.
In conclusion, as a professional Windows backup software, Hasleo Backup Suite enables you to quickly back up and restore ReFS partition using its intelligent sector backup technology.
In fact, Hasleo Backup Suite provides full support for native Windows file systems, including FAT, exFAT, NTFS, and ReFS, so you can not only back up ReFS volumes using the intelligent sector backup mode, but you can also quickly back up a Windows installation on an ReFS partition.
