Policy

Disallow network as backup target

Microsoft Windows

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Disallow network 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 a network share or not. If you enable this policy setting, machine administrator/backup operator cannot use Windows Server Backup to run backups to a network share. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, there is no restriction on network share being backup target.

Internal name
DisallowNetworkAsBackupTarget
Policy ID
3c30b8056240
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
NoBackupToNetwork
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Backup\Server
Value name
NoBackupToNetwork
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.