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Dear All,
on my productie I have the next :
Domain controller
Exchange Server
Veeam back up server
the 3 servers are Virtual,
Domain controller :
has two HDD, one for OS on the SSD data store, second one is on different datastore for data.

Exchange has one HDD
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I wanna back up both Exchange and Domain controller on two different Jobs,
Job one is for the OS
Job two is for the Data on the DC Disk 2

please any suggestions how to do this on a best practice?


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Just exclude the disks you don't want to backup from processing in each job.
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Gostev wrote:Just exclude the disks you don't want to backup from processing in each job.
you mean create two different jobs one for the OS, and exclude the Data Disk
and the second one just for the Data Disk ?
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If this what you're after, then, yes. One job for OS, the other for Data Disk.

However, what is the reason behind such a decision? The restoration process would be much easier, if both system and data disks of given VM were processed by one job.

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v.Eremin wrote:If this what you're after, then, yes. One job for OS, the other for Data Disk.

However, what is the reason behind such a decision? The restoration process would be much easier, if both system and data disks of given VM were processed by one job.

Thanks.
the reason behind is I've configured it before like this
to backup the whole VM, however when the DC is down, couldn't restore just disk 0 ( Os ), had to restore the whole VM which took times and had affected the Production,
I really wanna have both VMS in one job which gonna make it easy for me,
is there is a way to test the back up its backed up both Disks ?
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Is there is a way to test the back up its backed up both Disks ?
It can't be tested beforehand, until the backup process is finished. I still suggest you to investigate the unexpected behavior (inability of OS disk restoration) with the support team. Once the root cause is found, you won't have to use creative workarounds any longer.

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Thank you Eremin,
I am testing this now, before I contact the Technical team.
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jamerson wrote:to backup the whole VM, however when the DC is down, couldn't restore just disk 0 ( Os ), had to restore the whole VM which took times and had affected the Production,
I really wanna have both VMS in one job which gonna make it easy for me,
Do you mean you couldn't restore just VM virtual disk? Also if you don't want to wait till VM full restores, you may want to consider using Instant VM Recovery functionality.
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my problem is fixed, I believe the VM been edited and we didn't edite the backup job !
thank you so much !
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