Policy

Disallow locally attached storage as backup target

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Disallow locally attached storage as backup target
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Server
Supported on
At least Windows Server 2008

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016

This policy setting allows you to manage whether backups of a machine can run to locally attached storage or not. If you enable this policy setting, machine administrator/backup operator cannot use Windows Server Backup to run backups to a locally attached storage or disk. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, there is no restriction on locally attached storage or disk being backup target.

Internal name
DisallowLocallyAttachedStorageAsBackupTarget
Policy ID
fdfe425fa2b4
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Backup\Server
Value name
NoBackupToDisk
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Backup\Server
Value name
NoBackupToDisk
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.