Excluding Pagefile.sys in VM snapshots - NetBackup 7.5
I've read a lot of the discussions about excluding drives from vmware backups and using the advanced options. I have little twist to my issue.
I want to backup everything except the pagefile in my vms. We have configured our pagefiles to live on a drive of their own, the P drive. Is it possible to exlude by filename, or a particular drive letter? If I exclude boot disk, I expect it won't exclude anything because it won't find the boot disk because the pagefile does not live on the same drive as the system files. If I exclude data disks that will exclude the other drives that have data that we want included.
Anyone have ideas? I'm running 7.5.0.7, getting ready to upgrade to 7.6. We have vmware and MS hyperv.
Thanks.
Found the solution! Independent, persistent mode drives will be skipped by the snapshot backup. So for us, because we have our pagefile on a dedicated drive, we changed that drive to be independent persistent mode. It is automatically skipped!