BE2010R3 - Ignore Exceptions

[Avram_Woroch_2]

Obviously an Exception is something to look at and/or may refer to an improperly licenced feature being attempted - I get that.  In our environment I'm trying to back up a number of VM's - 10 powered on and 2 templates powered off.  I get a "Completed with Exceptions" with the following detail:

Backup- VMVCB::\\ZAID1BAK1\VCGuestVm\(DC)ZAID1_DC1(DC)\vm\Windows 2008 x64 [TEMPLATE]

V-79-57344-38725 - One or more virtual disks contain volumes that do not support Granular Recovery T...

I'm perfectly fine with that as an exception.  Powered off VM's and/or templates can't do GRT - becuase you have to basically connect to the Windows agent to index the file system to do that, etc, etc.  I don't care.  I can't turn on/off GRT for individual VM's in a backup, so I'd have to create two jobs, one after the other - that's just obnoxious.

All I want is a way to tell BE that this above error can be completely ignored.  Is there a way to do that?

[pkh · Accepted solution]

No.  There is no way to selectively suppress warning messages.  Just ignore them, if you want.

[Avram_Woroch_2]

Surely that can't be true.  There is no way to script, registry, ini, etc a suppression of that error message?  If not, then there SHOULD be, and I'd like to know how to make a feature request.

The issue is of course, that now all backups have an "exception" - so to know if something truly happened out of scope, you need to double check every log, not just look for ones with exceptions.

[pkh]

You can post your suggestion in the Ideas section and if there are enough users who agree with you.  It might get implemented in some future release of BE.