Support for backing up Win2k3 VMs??

[tommls]

I know 9.5u4 can back up Win2k3 VMs.
What about v10??
v11 dropped Win2k3 support, sigh...
Thank you, Tom

[Egor Yakovlev]

Hi Tom.

As long as it is virtual machine's Guest OS, we won't care much - crash consistent image-level backup is always an option, no changes here.
Support is dropped for variety of component-dependent features, such as using Win2k3 as Backup Server, as Proxy server, as Repository server, as well as guest processing for app-aware backup, etc.

/Cheers!

[tommls]

When I installed v11 few weeks ago all the Win2k3 vms would not back up.
So I've been backing them up with our old v9.5u2 veeam server.

Does this reply mean I can indeed back up Win2k3 vms with v11??
But I must turn off app-aware something something?? -- what setting is this??

Thank you, Tom

[Egor Yakovlev]

Correct, with enabled Application-aware Image processing checkbox, jobs will fail on 2k3 machines.
On Guest Processing step you can disable that option granularly for 2k3 machines only(Applications>select machine>Edit>Disable processing) or for the entire job(untick App-Aware Processing completely).
/Cheers!