Hi,
Im trying to create myself a little virtual test lab of our live network (at the moment using VMWare Workstation v7, eventually, a dedicated server).
Im having a few problems doing restores however.
Using DPM, ive set it to 'restore' a bare metal recovery image to my laptop (of which its 25Gb, when the server its restoring is 170Gb...any ideas on that one?).
The problem im having is that i cant restore! Keeps coming up with 'invalid paramenter' error if i have the destination VM as having 1 big 170Gb disk, and if i set it to several smaller VHDs to reflect different partitions that were there on the original server, it complains about what drive is active in the BIOS!
All this is both worrying and annoying.
Worrying because our company backup system doesnt want to restore.
Annoying because i cant build my test lab!
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks.
Im trying to create myself a little virtual test lab of our live network (at the moment using VMWare Workstation v7, eventually, a dedicated server).
Im having a few problems doing restores however.
Using DPM, ive set it to 'restore' a bare metal recovery image to my laptop (of which its 25Gb, when the server its restoring is 170Gb...any ideas on that one?).
The problem im having is that i cant restore! Keeps coming up with 'invalid paramenter' error if i have the destination VM as having 1 big 170Gb disk, and if i set it to several smaller VHDs to reflect different partitions that were there on the original server, it complains about what drive is active in the BIOS!
All this is both worrying and annoying.
Worrying because our company backup system doesnt want to restore.
Annoying because i cant build my test lab!
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks.