Directory 'Volume{GUID}' does not support Granular Recovery Technology
having issues with my Windows 2008 R2 VMware clients while testing BackupExec 2010.
Windows 2008 R2 creates a 100MB partition labelled "System Reserved", during installation. This is a small partition created automatically during installation to support bitlocker if you are going to use it in the future.
Anyway, when doing a backup using the VMware option, I get an completed with exceptions.
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Backup Exec has discovered and protected 'C:' on virtual machine '\\machinename'.
Backup Exec has discovered and protected 'D:' on virtual machine '\\machinename'.
V-79-57344-38724 - Directory 'Volume{GUID}' does not support Granular Recovery Technology (GRT). Granular restores cannot be performed for items in this directory.
Backup Exec has discovered and protected 'Volume{GUID}' on virtual machine '\\machinename'.
Backup Exec has discovered and protected Microsoft Exchange Server data on virtual machine '\\machinename'.
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Job Completion Status
Job ended: Monday, 15 March 2010 at 10:38:24 AM
Completed status: Completed with exceptions
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When I check the Drive GUID, it in that 100MB partition. When I go to recovery, it lists C, D and the GUID.
Is there a way to exclude this drive from the machien backup, or a way to stop the error occuring and making all the jobs have exceptions. I dont' want to have to manually check the bakup job every day to see if these drives are the exceptions every day, if the backup works I want to see success in the reports.
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This reserved partition, in
This reserved partition, in fact contains the boot files for Windows 2008 R2 system. GRT of this volume will not be important, and the message is just an exception and not an error. The fact is that we do not have drive letter assigned to this drive letter and hence GRT cannot be done. For disaster recovery point, you would be performing restore of entire virtual machine and backup of this individual drive without a letter would not be relevant for GRT. Currently, there is no workaround for this.
Please mark it a solution, if this is useful.
Thanks
I am running into this same warning also
It would be a nice feature to be able to exclude these types of volumes from GRT so that these warnings are not generated. Could this be a feature request added?
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