I know how to add a backup destination using wbadmin. But how do we do the inverse to remove redundant targets.
If I issue the command
WBADMIN ENABLE BACKUP -removetarget
i need the disk id to be able to remove target drives registered with Windows Server Backup (WSB).
How do I get the Disk ID for drives that say have failed and been disposed of that WSB has registered with it
WBADMIN GET DISKS
only tells us the drives that are physically connected to the server at the time.
Why: I have a client site that is quite harsh on their external drives used for backup. It has a large number of drives registered as destinations and I'd lke to cull them. Becuase it is easy to use one of the disk editing tools to write the disk id and hence impersonate a backup drive, I'd like to remove any that are no longer alive.
I have done a search of the registry for a know DISK ID but none returned assuming they are either stored encrypted or stored elsewhere.