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August 26th, 2016 06:00
Exclude a hard drive from a snapshot - Dell VSM
Hello,
I was wondering when taking a snapshot using Dell VSM for vmware is there an option to exclude a hard drive which will be snapshotted.
The hard drive in question would be a page file hard drive which we would not need to recover in the event of failure.
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twignall
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August 30th, 2016 04:00
That's fine. From my understanding, if we configure a snapshot schedule for a particular server it will be a incremental so only back up the files which have changed is that correct?
If so the PageFile drive will always be changing will that affect the snapshot and also would it use a huge amount of space as its always changing it will keep backing up different files daily.
twignall
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September 7th, 2016 02:00
Are you talking about two different types of backups? Via VMware and directly on SAN?
We did use VRanger to back up one of our servers but that would fail to clean the VMWare snapshot which would lead to snapshot increase to the point it filled up the whole drive and killed the server due to lack of space.
When taking a backup with VSM is it the same process as using vRanger - is a normal VMWare snapshot taken and then copied over to the snapshot volume of the SAN?