Exclusion of Devices from Backup

You can exclude specific devices from backup, such as SAN LUNs or multipath devices. To do this, you must edit the veeam.ini configuration file on the Veeam Agent computer side.

To specify devices that must be excluded from backup, do the following:

1. On the Veeam Agent computer, open the veeam.ini configuration file located in the /etc/veeam directory.
2. In the backup section, uncomment the ignoreDevices line.
3. Specify the devices that you want to exclude. Use a semicolon to separate device names. For example:

You can also use a wildcard character (an asterisk) to specify a range of devices whose names follow the same convention. For example: