Windows Server Backup

[blastman]

Hi all,

I'm running windows 2008 r2 and have been doing a windows server back for a while now.

In en effort to reduce the space used I went to reconfigure it but discovered that the option i need 'Bare Metal Recovery' is including my 2nd HDD (D:\).

This is causing the backups to be over a TB in size which is stupid as the data on the D:\ is backup with backup exec anyhow.

Any thought on to why the bare metel option is including the D drive and what I can do to stop it doing so?

thanks in advance

 

[blastman]

oh, could it be because I have my WSUS and WDS data stored on there? As a domain controller with these roles enabled I assume it'll need that data to be able to recover?

 

[Showboat]

Bare metal restore is used to replace your system with an entirely new piece of hardware.
It's like taking an image of your machine, you need to backup everything d:\ included if you want to be able to restore it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare-metal_restore

 

[blastman]

Bare metal restore is used to replace your system with an entirely new piece of hardware.
It's like taking an image of your machine, you need to backup everything d:\ included if you want to be able to restore it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare-metal_restore

that's just it, i don't want to restore the d drive if a recovery was required. maybe it's existence but certainly not the data on it.

is there anyway to exclude it?

 

[Showboat]

Don't think so, you will need to select a different backup type.
See here: (under choosing what to backup)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/404a51b5-99a6-43d1-b5a5-36261cb5ade2
You will probably want system state (if domain controller)
And either Individual volumes or Folders and files.

 

[blastman]

well, for anyone else who finds this..

I managed to move the WSUS data with wsusutil and I also moved the WDS content off my D drive.

This now allows me to do a bare metal backup without having the D drive selected.

Problem solved.