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How to skip the backup of passthrough disk in backup exec 2014?

How to skip the backup of pass through disk of a physical host. I am using backup exec 2014 to take backup of hyper-v machine including 4 guest machine. The guest machines are being backed up as as a separate job containing the backup of the disk presented to it for exchange and etc data. I am getting below error and it shows that the backup is failed but in actual the backup of VHD is successful and it just skipped the pass through disk.
Thanks and Regards.
Ibrahim.

Sajid Shaik M

while you create backup policy select only drives which you want to take backup... except the passthrough disk.

make it sure passthrough disk is not contains any vm information...

Ibrahim Bazarwala

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Hi Shaik,
Applying the above procedure will make me select manually whole path containing VHD files which will increase the time as i have more than 15 Physical machine and have few sites as well. There must be some way to exclude the pass through disk.
Thanks

Sajid Shaik M

hi Ibu,

could you try this may be it's useful..

https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.HOWTO99632.html

https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH29548.html

all the best

Ibrahim Bazarwala

ASKER

Hi Shaik,
The knowledge base does not show how to skip the pass through disk. I have opened a support case with Symantec.
Thanks.

Sajid Shaik M

please update the solution when you go through it..

thanks

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