Excluding an Entire Drive or Partition from CDP Replication

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h2. Question
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I have multiple partitions on a Windows or Linux CDP Agent and would like to exclude an entire drive or partition from the backup process, how do I do that ?

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Solution
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[http://wiki.r1soft.com/display/CDP/Devices]

* Automatically add new devices
* Protect Storage Configuration

Deselect these options and click on 'Create' in the bottom right corner, a confirmation screen will appear to acknowledge the Disk Safe has been created. Now another pop-up screen will appear to 'Add Devices to Protect', click on 'Add' to go to the next pop-up window.

Now you should see a split screen and in the top section left frame you should see all drives and partitions detected on that Agent OS. (Note: in CDP terms a partition is a Device). You can click the green plus sign to add a Device to the Disk Safe. Note that you cannot use the 'Automatically add new devices' if you are excluding any Device on the Agent OS and you should go back and select 'Protect Storage Configuration' after you have selected and saved the Devices you want to replicate. If you don't protect what you configured manually... CDP could make changes for you unexpectedly when new Devices are detected on the Agent OS so it is a good practice to do that.

If this is an existing Disk Safe and you want to remove a Device to be replicated by CDP you can do that in the Device Manager area of the Disk Safe (see wiki article above). It is a good practice to create a new Disk Safe when doing this to get the size reduction of the Disk Safe (it is not mandatory). If you keep the existing Disk Safe the overall size will not reduce since the data in the previous Recovery Points will remain in the Disk Safe.

[http://wiki.r1soft.com/display/CDP/Disk+Safes]

[http://wiki.r1soft.com/display/TP/Technical+Papers]