Re: Expand drive space and perform ASR
- From: "cristalink" <cristalink@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:37:44 +1300
1. You will get a 40 GB partition on your 300 GB drive.
2. ASR will back up and restore everything (except of certain exclusions
listed in the NTBackup settings) on the system partition (C: in your case).
It will be virtually seamless.
3. Yes you can put your old drives back.
Note that ASR restore may fail on RAID. You can try to do ASR in spite of
1), then DISKPART.EXE to extend the partition.
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"T. Oates" <TOates@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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let me preface this with a thanks to all of you that make this group such
a
resource for those like me that need help with fairly simple IT issues. I've
always found the right answers here.
Existing hardware: Dell Poweredge SC420, Integrated adaptec PERC
controller,
x2 SATA 40gb drives with a single partition for OS and data.
New drives: 2x 320gb SATA Hds for a single partition
I need to enlarge my hard disk space. I am looking at using the ntbackup
and
ASR to backup and restore my current installation by pulling out the old
drives, putting in the new ones (and configuring them as one volume c:)
and
beginning the reinstall of the SBS2003 OS and restoring through ASR the
old
installation of my SBS. I am reading through the microsoft
whitepaper/bulletin titled "backup and restoring windows sbs 2003." I only
have three users on this SBS and it is primarily an expensive way to share
calendars and networked file storage. I can't justify the expense of
paying
for the swing migration.
My questions are:
1. looking at NTbackup and ASR there is a warning that the new hard drive
should contain matching volumes the same size or larger than those on the
original computer. If I backup with ASR from the 40gb single partition and
restore it to my new 320gbsingle partition will this pose a problem?
2. In the ASR wizard, if I choose "All information on this computer" will
the Ntbackup and ASR restore process restore all the data (os and non-os
data) from the old partition to the new one? I only have one
partition/volume
with everything (os and data as drive C:\). Does this include all
email/calendar/user files stored on the server? Essentially will it be
seemless once the restore is done?
3. If I get into this after pulling out my 2 old 40gb drives and find the
OS
not restoring properly, can I just plug in the old drives and effectively
be
back at square one?
Thanks for the help.
Tom
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