Disk exclusion question

[Yuki]

A follow up question:

So i've added a disk to be used by VSS for shadow copies and have excluded it from backups/replication. However, on the Veeam server i see a popup during backup asking if we want to fix "VSS Volume". I guess it still gets mounted during HotAdd backup and causes this popup on the Veeam server. Is that normal?

[Vitaliy S.]

Hi Yuki,

I've split the following conversation into the new discussion, as it is unrelated to the OP question and topic. Can you please confirm that you've started seeing this message right after adding new disk to the VM configuration?

Thanks!

[Yuki]

Well,
the first run or two i didn't look at veeam console, so i'm not sure if it was presented (was relying on e-mail reports). But recently when looking at the console i did notice the pop-up window.

I've seen it before for other volumes, but i didn't expect it to come up during a backup when that particular volume was excluded.

Update: just noticed it on a replication job:

Disk being exluded is is SCSI ID (1:15)

[Vitaliy S.]

Hi Yuki,

Sorry for the late reply, but this is expected behavior for the hot add mode. Please check out this topic for further details: Hot Add Behavior

Thanks!

[Yuki]

Ok, good to know. So it is the vStorage API that mounts all of the virtual drives, regardless of them being excluded in Veeam job.

[Vitaliy S.]

Correct.