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

[MiloHaze]

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.

[Mark_Solutions · Accepted solution]

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]

I agree with Mark - WOFB is either enabled or disabled at host level.

[muhanad_daher]

As attched,  insert client and unckeck it.