![]() ![]() This option is really only good for individual file restores. Option 2 is to mount the VHD and manually copy files. ![]() Option 1 is to do a restore using a Windows installation CD and select the restore option. This lead me to start researching restore options using the VHD files produced by the native Windows Server Backup. This got me thinking… I have some personal trust issues with the reliability of Microsoft products to begin with and now I’m having these problems which are just reinforcing the fear of something going wrong during the restore process. I’ve read all the articles about allocating storage on a separate partition to get VSS to behave, but I could never get it to function correctly. It seems to work ok for the most part, but I ran into a problem when I came across a system that for some unknown reason had a 38MB boot partition with insufficient space to create a VSS snapshot, thus preventing the tool from properly backing up the partition. ![]() The utility creates several XML files and a VHD image for each partition it backs up. I’ve recently been evaluating native Windows Server Backup as an option for bare-metal backup and recovery for our remaining physical servers at work. ![]() Convert a VHD image from a native Windows backup to raw format using qemu-img, and write it directly to a disk or partition with the Linux dd command ![]()
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