Exclude Folders on Drive from being Shadow Copied 1

[gregmuir2]

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1291297&page=1

This is another question that stems from my previous thread.

I would like to exclude certain directories from getting shadow copied on a given volume. Unless I am misunderstanding things, though, it looks like I am unable to do that. What it appears I can do is partition the drive into multiple volumes and then I can select to shadow or not to shadow an entire volume but not folders within.

Anyone else more clued in on this than I?

 

[BenChristian]

You're correct, you can only configure VSS at the volume level, so unfortunately you can't exclude specific folders unless you move them to another volume that doesn't have VSS configured.

http://www.benchristian.com

 

[gregmuir2]

Drat. I've used programs like Partition Magic on IDE drives but have not had as much experience with RAID arrays. Can I create new partitions while they're still in use or is that a question more specific to the controller and software they're running?

 

[NickFerrar]

You will need a 3rd party tool for this although the RAID part isn't really relelvant, its done at the operating system level which thinks the array is just one big disk.

We use Paragon Partition Manager here for this sort of thing,

http://www.partition-manager.com/

its not cheap but I'd highly recommend the Enterprise version as it has a low-level backup facility (i.e. basically creates an image) so if the partitioning goes pear-shaped you'll have a decent backup to fall back on (we just do them to external USB hard drives). The imaging part would need downtime, you can probably do the partitioning itself on-the-fly though.