Avamar backup completes with exception: HomeBase Embedded is not installed.

There is a dropdown in the dataset options for Windows Filesystem that controls whether or not to try to use HomeBase Embedded. In the Avamar 6.1 GUI, the dropdown is labeled "Avamar Server Restore Option (HBE)". Change this dropdown from enabled to disabled and the error should no longer appear.

Thank you!

Thank you,

Debbie

You're very welcome!

Yes, that's correct. The Windows VSS plugin is for backing up system state. The System State checkbox you see in the regular Windows Filesystem dataset options is for legacy system state backups using ntbackup.

May I bother you with another question.

If in a windows dataset def, I include the Windows VSS and Windows file systems as source data, doesn’t the VSS do the system state.

Thank you,

Debbie

Unfortunately the answer for this is "it depends".

If both plug-ins are in the same dataset, you can't guarantee the order in which they will start. If one plug-in completes but the backup runs over its window and gets killed while the second backup is running, you don't know whether it will be the file system backup or the system state backup that finishes (and is therefore restorable). This won't matter for most clients but it might matter for some.

On the flipside, having separate datasets introduces a certain amount of administrative overhead.

Sorry… so is it best practice to do windows File system AND Windows VSS in the same dataset ? we have some fairly large Filesystem backups

Thank you,

Debbie