As you add offline USB disk drives to Windows Server Backup 2008 R2 to use for backup, WSB composes and assigns disk (volume) names to each drive as you add it. The name is composed of the server name, timestamp, and the string DISK_nn.
The first drive you add will be DISK_01, the second DISK_02 etc. If you have two disk drives in the backup set, and you remove DISK_02, the next drive you add will be DISK_03 and not DISK_02. So it appears that the names are not recycled.
After using several drives in testing, I want to start over and have the actual drives I'll use for 'production' labeled properly and in sequence. How can I tell WSB to reset the name sequence back to DISK_01?
Additionally, where is this configuration information being stored? A search of the registry did not find the disk labels currently in use. Is there any way to control the next DISK_nn number assigned?
Thanx in advance. Geoff, Fredon NJ