Individual Drive Snapshot

The Individual Drive Snapshot property specifies that the snapshot should be of an individual drive. When this property is enabled, snapshot creation and file backup is done sequentially on a per volume basis. For example, assume that drives C and D are being backed up. If Individual Drive Snapshot is selected, NetBackup performs the following actions for the backup job:

1. NetBackup takes a snapshot of drive C, backs it up, and discards the snapshot.
2. NetBackup takes a snapshot of drive D, backs it up, and discards the snapshot.

Volume snapshots are enabled on only one drive at a time, depending on which drive is being backed up. This mode is useful when it is not necessary to maintain relationships between files on the different drives. Additionally, this configuration can be used if snapshot creation consistently fails when all volumes for the backup are snapshot at once when the Global Drive Snapshot property is enabled. (For example, if one volume in the volume set has problems meeting the VSP quiet time requirements.) Individual Drive Snapshot is enabled by default for all non multi-streamed backups using the Windows Open File Backup option.

This property appears for master servers only.