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Hi

Last night during a Child Partition Backup on one of my Hyper-V VM, the Host paused all the VM because all the free disk space disappeared.

During the day I removed a VM freeing about 40GB of disk space so this volume (F:\) was the one with the most free space.

 

When I canceled the child partition backup, all the free space was available again and I could resume my VMs

 

I never really understood how the VSS Writer choosed the volume where to store its snapshot (wrong word maybe).

I had a free unmounted drive in the server, so I set it up, formatted it, now I have new shiny volume with 140GB free, is there a way to force the VSS Writer to use this drive to store the snapshot during the child partition backup, and not to use the volume storing the VM?

I have multiple volume storing multiple VM, apparently the problem occured when snapshoting the VHD stored on the J:\ Volume, it tried to store it on F:\, so I assume I can tell VSS to go on my new volume K:\

If there is a way, unfortunately I couldn't find it here and google is not really cooperative with DPM and VSS related questions !!

 

Thanks in advance for your help

 

Best regards

Christophe


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