Forget my prior email on the topic. :-) Regards,
Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -----Original Message----- From: Troy Meyer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server 2008 GUID for backup devices Greg, Thanks for following up with the solution. I have yet to use the 2008 Backup utility, and this is good to know. -troy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 3:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server 2008 GUID for backup devices Okay googlefu did not fail me. Found this and it works, although using the method it does not utilize the VSS snapshots that the full server backup program uses, so it creates whole new files each backup. Not great for offsite backup solutions, but better than nothing. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944530 Greg From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Server 2008 GUID for backup devices Well those of you running 2008 for sure know that the native backup tools in 08 have been significantly altered and you can no longer perform system state to "critical volumes" This presents a problem for applications that replicate offsite by creating a systemstate file locally and sending it off, or for clients that send systemstate volumes to network locations for backup. My specific question is.. "Does anyone know how to make Server 08 present a network drive or remapped path on an existing volume as a NEW GUID volume to the OS. Subst command does not present a GUID for the volume you map according to a WMI lookup of Win32_volume We are trying to work around this until the software vendors come out with a workaround or MS provides some kind of interface for doing this again. Thanks Greg Sweers ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
