Disabling NT Backup using VSS on MS SQL 2000 databases

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Hi,

I have a Window 2003 server with MS SQL Server 2000 SP4. I have setup
SQL Database Maintenance Plans to backup the databases. The issue is
that we do incremental and full backups with NT backup. NT backup is
creating incremental and full backups of the database/databases dispite
the fact we have configured the NT backup to not backup the folder that
contains SQL Databases and .MDF & .LDF file extensions.

I suspect the reason is the fact that the server has been figured with
the one volume C: drive. (I know it is not ideal configuration, but I
did not setup the server.) Thus when we a using NT backup to backup
system state it using VSS by default on the whole volume and calling
MSDEWriter to create a snapshot copy of the database (either
incremental or full).

Thus my question is there a way to disable NT backup from trying to
backup SQL Server.

Lui.

.

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