Stephan, Thank you very much for the tip. I have not used independent disks nor really looked into them. Sounds like a perfect solution for these VMs.
Jeff On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 10:56 AM Stephan Duehr <stephan.du...@bareos.com> wrote: > On 4/5/22 19:08, Jeffery Banning wrote: > > I have some VMs that have multiple drives defined. One of the drives > is 2TB and used for temporary data when executing long running > simulations. I would like to exclude that drive from the backup process. > Can I tell the Bareos plugin to only snapshot specific drives? Or would > that be a VCenter thing. > > Please have a look at the documentation at > https://docs.bareos.org/TasksAndConcepts/Plugins.html#vmware-plugin > > It says: > > "Limitation - VMware Plugin: Normal VM disks can not be excluded from the > backup. > > It is not yet possible to exclude normal (dependent) VM disks from > backups. However, independent disks are excluded implicitly because > they are not affected by snapshots which are required for CBT based > backup." > > > So currently it's not possible to exclude normal disks. > But why don't you just use an independent disk for the temporary data? > Seems like that fits your requirements. > > Regards, > Stephan Dühr > > > > > > Thanks, > > Jeff Banning > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "bareos-users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto: > bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/cec3059d-3e7c-46c1-bb53-8fd689eb8185n%40googlegroups.com > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/cec3059d-3e7c-46c1-bb53-8fd689eb8185n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > >. > > -- > Stephan Dühr stephan.du...@bareos.com > Bareos GmbH & Co. KG Phone: +49 221-630693-90 > http://www.bareos.com > > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Köln | Amtsgericht Köln: HRA 29646 > Komplementär: Bareos Verwaltungs-GmbH > Geschäftsführer: S. Dühr, M. Außendorf, J. Steffens, Philipp Storz > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "bareos-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/bareos-users/sAShxzC8mmo/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/c6622392-834f-62fc-0db7-8d9de72211ed%40bareos.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/CAFwNebddZSq1QQwvhboheXR9k0AnxgRxWnaLvJmyZrKs-phn4Q%40mail.gmail.com.
