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<\/p>\nIf you are running a demo or test lab, and you need some additional economical storage for backups, then you might think \u201cI\u2019ll use a USB drive\u201d. However, DPM (and therefore Azure Backup Server) do not support adding a disk on a USB controller as a backup target. I struggled with this, and then it hit me this morning.<\/p>\n
Storage Spaces will abstract that the disk is connected via USB <\/p>\n
I connected the disk, made sure it was unformatted and offline, launched Server Manger and created a pool from the primordial pool. I then create a simple virtual disk from the pool, and chose not to format it. Back into Azure Backup Server, and I was able to add the disk as a backup target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you are running a demo or test lab, and you need some additional economical storage for backups, then you might think \u201cI\u2019ll use a USB drive\u201d. However, DPM (and therefore Azure Backup Server) do not support adding a disk on a USB controller as a backup target. I struggled with this, and then it … Continue reading “How To Get DPM\/Azure Backup Server To Use USB Drive As Backup Storage”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[170,148,55,99],"class_list":["post-19874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azure","tag-azure","tag-azure-backup","tag-backup","tag-storage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t