Specifications

This article refers to Barracuda Backup firmware version 5.3 and higher, and Microsoft

Hyper-V 2008 and 2008 R2

.hypervisor-based virtualization systems. This article assumes Hyper-V is installed and configured

How to Set Up Hyper-V 2008 Clustering

How to Set Up Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Machine

Backups

In some instances it may be necessary to exclude certain virtual machines from backup when implementing a clustered Hyper-V environment. To

do so, you must configure the Barracuda Backup Agent (Windows) to ignore those virtual machines you wish to exclude from backup.

Edit the Barracuda Backup Agent

Use the following instructions to edit the Barracuda Backup Agent on the Hyper-V Server:

On the , open Services.Hyper-V Server where you installed the Barracuda Backup Agent (Windows)

Right-click on the Service , and click . The Service is now stopped.Barracuda Backup Agent Stop

Open the file in Notepad; the file is located in the following directory:bbconfig.ini

/Program Files/Barracuda/Barracuda Backup Agent/config/bbconfig.ini

Add the following lines to the end of the file:

ignorelist=VMname1,VMname2,VMname3

For example:

Save and close the file.

Open Services once again.

Right-click on the Service , and click . The field should display as .Barracuda Backup Agent Start Status Started

Microsoft SQL Server

In this Section

How to Back Up Microsoft SQL Server Databases

How to Enable VSS Backups for Microsoft SQL Server

How to Back Up Microsoft SQL Server Databases

This article refers to Barracuda Backup firmware 5.0 and higher, and Microsoft SQL Server running the Barracuda Backup Agent

(Windows).

In this article:

Add the SQL Server as a Data Source

Create Backup Schedules