VE Builtin Backup - How NOT to back up NAS data drive

Fylb

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Mar 26, 2024
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Hello,
I have a VE VM running Open Media Vault for NAS software that runs great. I want to back it up but when I fire up the backup job it wants to backup the data drive of the NAS as well as the system drive which results in an unacceptable backup file size. How can I set the backup to backup the VM's system drive and not the data drive? I don't see any settings in the GUI that allow me to do that.

Thanks much,
Phil
 
Hi Phil,

go to your VM, select hardware, double-click the disk you do not wish to backup and remove the checkbox "Backup". This will exclude this disk from the backup.

(The disk you below see is included.)

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Br,
Richard
 

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