Policy

Disallow optical media as backup target

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

Policy
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category Server
Policy ID 481498da4e2a
Internal name DisallowOpticalMediaAsBackupTarget

Registry

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HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Backup\Server\NoBackupToOptical (enabled) = 1
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Backup\Server\NoBackupToOptical (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

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

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