McAfee Online Backup works with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 with
some exceptions.
The following exceptions apply to both Windows 8 and Windows Server
2012:
- You cannot use the
McAfee Online Backup backup software, sync, or any other McAfee Online Backup
feature on a Windows 8 tablet.
- If you use EFS encryption on
your NTFS file system, these files cannot be restored to a Windows 8 device.
- You cannot compress files
with the Windows 8 file system. Therefore, if you copy a file from an NTFS file
system to a Windows 8 device, you need to accommodate the original size of the
file, not the compressed size.
- We have tested Microsoft's
new Storage Pools feature with Mirror, Parity, and Simple workflows. However,
because it is a new feature, we encourage you to test thoroughly in your own
environment and use caution when using Storage Pools with critical data.
The following exceptions apply only to Windows Server 2012:
- The File Server VSS Agent
writer now lets you take snapshots of SMB 3.0 shares. McAfee Online Backup may
work with File Server VSS Agent writer, but you should test thoroughly before
relying on McAfee Online Backup to use the VSS agent to back up open or locked
files on these shares.
- McAfee Online Backup
discourages backing up iSCSI targets that are used by other machines hosted on
Windows servers. Using McAfee Online Backup to do this could result in a file
that is never backed up because it changes faster than McAfee Online Backup can
back it up.
- If you use
McAfee Online Backup on Server Core for Windows Server 2012, you must use the
command line to manually instantiate settings.
For more information, see
Commands for Windows Backup.