Re: [ADSM-L] Exclude backup of USB drive on Windows?

I have never noticed that before.  New day, new thing.
Windows is making the distinction based on the partition type of the volume.  
There will not be a registry trick for this one.
You can see the disk type in DiskPart which would allow scripting.  It would be 
a complex script.

DISKPART> select disk 2

Disk 2 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> detail disk

Hitachi HTS721080G9SA00 USB Device
Disk ID: 28BC28BB
Type   : USB
Status : Online
Path   : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : UNAVAILABLE
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only  : No
Boot Disk  : No
Pagefile Disk  : No
Hibernation File Disk  : No
Crashdump Disk  : No
Clustered Disk  : No

Andy Huebner


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Erwann SIMON
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Exclude backup of USB drive on Windows?

David, Andu,

AFAIK, an USB key is seen a "removable storage" whereas an USB disk is
seen as a "fixed local disk" on Windows systems. That's the reason why
USB keys are NOT backed up and USB drives are backed up when an
incremental on an ALL-LOCAL domain is run.

Maybe is there a Windows registry trick to change this situation.

Best regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي
Erwann SIMON


Le 23/06/2011 22:14, Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT a écrit :
> What OS and what agent version?
> Win7 with agent 6.1.3.2 does not backup the USB key that I plugged in unless 
> I add the drive letter to the domain all-local statement.
>
> Andy Huebner
>
>
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> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of David Longo
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 1:22 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Exclude backup of USB drive on Windows?
>
> Is there a way to exclude backup of USB drives on Windows clients?
> Of course if you know the drive letter you can!
>
> I am having more cases of these being used and with most of
> my clients being set to DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL, when somebody inserts
> one of these things, I back it up - or try to.
>
> If I changed to specifying individual drives, this would cause more
> problems as many servers get drive config changes and adds, and
> I would have to keep up with them - or miss something.
>
> Wondered if there is a trick to blanket exclude USB drives.
> Saw nothing in the Manuals.
>
> Thanks,
> David Longo
>
>
>
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