How to ignore specific SQL instances on a SQL server VM backup?

Hi Chase,

Such functionality is not yet available - you can exclude only entire SQL application but not specific instances. We will consider this feature for future versions of Acronis Backup.

EDIT: as far as I've just checked the SQL instances which are turned off will be properly skipped during application-aware processing in Acronis Backup 12 (new upcoming version) in the initial release, so this should resolve your issue when the new version comes out.

Thank you.

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Best regards,

Vasily

Acronis Virtualization Program Manager

Good day,

This is an old thread, but we are still getting warnings for disabled instances: "SQL Server databases of instance 'SQLSERVER' have not been backed up because the instance is offline."

We are using Acronis Cloud running the latest 12.5 agent on the server.

Is there still no way to ignore specific instances?

Thanks,

Christiaan

Hello Christiaan,

thank you for your posting! It is not possible to ignore offline instances in the current implementation, however, they will be skipped during the application-aware backup with a corresponding warning alerting the user that specific SQL instances were not included into the backup. 

I've added your comment as a vote for the existing feature request. 

Thank you!

Thanks Ekaterina!

I appreciate you adding my vote. I HATE seeing even orange on our dashboard :) 

Christiaan

When will the option of ignoring or choosing which instance should be included in the backup process become available?

Garry Reimer wrote:

When will the option of ignoring or choosing which instance should be included in the backup process become available?

Hello Garry,

the feature request is still in backlog, unfortunately we have no ETA to share..

I've added your comment as a vote for the feature request. 

Thank you!

I also vote for this feature.

Darko Bazulj wrote:

I also vote for this feature.

Thank you! registered your vote 

Also an Upvote from my side.

Can you provide any Link or something to Vote for this feature request by ourselves instead of replying to an very old Thread?

Clemens Drieschner wrote:

Also an Upvote from my side.

Can you provide any Link or something to Vote for this feature request by ourselves instead of replying to an very old Thread?

 Hello Clemens,

I've registered your vote for the feature request (internal ID for reference RM-1528). Currently, there is no open board for voting, however we're going to introduce a separate space on forum with feature requests and voting. I'll post a separate announcement when the voting forum is available.