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MiloHaze's avatar
MiloHaze
Level 3
13 years ago

How to "disable" VSS usage when doing backup for a particular drive?

Hello,

One of the servers that is under backup in my environemnet has serveral SAN attached drives that are used for daily Exchange dumps.

Specifically for that server I have created several policies - one only for C: and D:, one for the rest of the small drives, and several for these big drives.

I'm looking for a way to backup daily a specific folder on each of the big drives, without the use of VSS.

 

So, is there a way to configure the backups so VSS is used for C and D, and not used for those big drives?

I'm using Netbackup Enterprise 7.1.0.2 version, OS of the client is Win2003 64bit.

 

Thank you forward.

 

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  • Mark_Solutions's avatar
    Mark_Solutions
    13 years ago

    I dont believe that is possible

    You can either use it or not use it - controlled via Client Attributes in Master Server Host properties

    I guess if you really dug into it you could run all backups from a command line and specify not to use VSS for specific backups but that would probably be way too complex

    So i think the answer unfortunately would be NO

  • Mark_Solutions's avatar
    Mark_Solutions
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    I dont believe that is possible

    You can either use it or not use it - controlled via Client Attributes in Master Server Host properties

    I guess if you really dug into it you could run all backups from a command line and specify not to use VSS for specific backups but that would probably be way too complex

    So i think the answer unfortunately would be NO

  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    Level 6
    13 years ago
    I agree with Mark - WOFB is either enabled or disabled at host level.
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