That's my idea as well.
But I would like to keep the original config as well. Thinking I can use
the fact that the drives are mirrored.
Op 10 jun. 2015 17:25 schreef "David McSpadden" <[email protected]>:

>  Not sure if it is the same but when I p2v’d my HP’s in production one
> thing we found was to uninstall all the HP tools prior to the P2V.  The HP
> tools played havoc on the VM machines.
>
> We use the VMWare and not the Hyper V though.
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Dave Lum
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 10, 2015 11:18 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* RE: [NTSysADM] SBS2008, baremetal backup needs other drive
> besides C:
>
>
>
> I can’t tell you how happy I was when I migrated SBS to a VM! When it came
> time to do a swing migration to SBS2011 it was nice to make a copy of the
> VM’s and take them to the lab (to create a clone SBS server) to perfect the
> swing migration as I was able to snapshot the SBS environment at every step
> of the way. Today I VM everything, even in scenarios where it just 1 VM on
> a physical box.
>
>
>
> I too, have used disk2VHD to P2V servers, but it’s been many years.
>
>
>
> My latest trick is to use a USB 3.0 dual-bay HDD dock to flip workstations
> from spinning drives to SSD using the clone feature. Old PC, SSD speed, no
> need to reinstall anything. Way too easy…
>
>
>
> *From:* [email protected] [
> mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On
> Behalf Of *Rene de Haas
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 10, 2015 2:05 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] SBS2008, baremetal backup needs other drive
> besides C:
>
>
>
> :-)
>
>
>
> That was my preference as well.
>
>
>
> I did do that with 2 of their terminal servers actually.
>
>
>
> I did try that first with disk2vhd and it looked like it was working at
> first.
>
> Then after installing the Hyperv tools things went wrong.
>
> Maybe I will have another go at that.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Susan Bradley <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Okay now I get what you are trying to do, you are trying to move drive
> config as part of the restore process.
> Bare metal backup will want to put itself back on exactly the same
> configuration as it had before.
> You are probably going to need something like Storagecraft to rejigger the
> drive config.
> Or put it in a virtualized setup (which honestly I'd recommend - SBS 2008
> and 2011 work better as virtualized servers IMHO - the virtualized hardware
> behaves better than real metal)
>
> MS wants feedback on patching: http://tinyurl.com/patchingsurvey
> On 6/9/2015 3:40 PM, Rene de Haas wrote:
>
> As for the disk, thanks for the confirmation.
> I meant the windows server backup.
> I tried first the whole server, then realized the problem that it wanted 4
> disks.
> Then thought restore the system, but that also didn't work because it
> wanted to restore drive 3 besides drive 1.
> Which I can also see when starting to create a backup it will also check
> that drive.
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:21 AM, Susan Bradley <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Server 2008 or Vista disk will do as well, but it has to be that era.
>
>     When you say standard windows backup, do you mean you are using
>     the Windows backup console or the wizard in the SBS console to
>     backup the entire server?
>
>     Which disks does it look like it's trying to recover?
>
>     Hardware independent restores can also be done with StorageCraft.
>     I've also moved a physical to virtual with the Disk2vhd tool in
>     sysinternals.
>
>     On 6/9/2015 3:13 PM, Rene de Haas wrote:
>
>         I use the standard Windows backup. I don't get an
>         errormessage. The backup runs ok.
>         Just if I in the backup enable system recovery it
>         automatically checks 2 disks instead of just c:
>
>         What brought it up is I want to replace 4 smaller mirrors by 4
>         600GB drives in Raid 10 config and just have the original
>         drives as partitions on the Raid 10
>
>         The problem is when I restore it sees only one drive and
>         complains there aren't enough.
>         So I was thinking first restore system as c:, start up and
>         from there restore other drives to partitions on the big Raid 10.
>
>         They did have Acronis. Tried that, disk to disk, but it was
>         soooo slow. I cancelled it after about one hour trying to copy
>         a 76G drive with according to the software 11 hours remaining.
>
>         One other question. Do I need to use the SBS2008 disk for the
>         bare metal restore, of can I make due with just a Windows 2008
>         disk?
>
>         Thanks
>         René
>
>         On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Susan Bradley
>         <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>
>         <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>
>
>
>         wrote:
>
>             Say what?
>
>             What exact error messages are you getting as that's not so
>         unless
>             of course you have multiple drives and the files are
>         spread around
>             a bit as noted..
>             What backup program are you using?  Native?
>             And you booted with SBS 2008 or Vista media?  (you can't use
>             Win7/2008r2 era boot media to boot to find the backup devices)
>
>             MS wants feedback on patching:
>         http://tinyurl.com/patchingsurvey
>             On 6/9/2015 9:08 AM, Rene de Haas wrote:
>
>                 No no pagefile, bootfiles.are on C:
>                 The only thing I saw out of the ordinary so far was a
>         folder
>                 ai_recyclebin.
>                 That location doesn't seem to be mentioned in the
>         registry though.
>                 I also noticed our online backup program has temporary
>         folders
>                 there. One for the backup and one for brick level backup.
>                 Could that be the cause?
>                 Thanks
>                 René
>
>                 On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Charles F Sullivan
>                 <[email protected]
>         <mailto:[email protected]>
>         <mailto:[email protected]
>         <mailto:[email protected]>>
>                 <mailto:[email protected]
>         <mailto:[email protected]>
>                 <mailto:[email protected]
>         <mailto:[email protected]>>>> wrote:
>
>                     Pagefile, boot files (separate partition on
>         Windows 7 and
>                 later),
>                     any file that is considered part of the System State.
>                 Files that
>                     are considered part of the System State expanded
>         hugely
>                 with Vista
>                     and often include even third-party application files.
>
>                     *From:*[email protected]
>         <mailto:[email protected]>
>                 <mailto:[email protected]
>         <mailto:[email protected]>>
>                     <mailto:[email protected]
>         <mailto:[email protected]>
>                 <mailto:[email protected]
>         <mailto:[email protected]>>>
>
>                     [mailto:[email protected]
>
>
>         <mailto:[email protected]>
>                 <mailto:[email protected]
>         <mailto:[email protected]>>
>                     <mailto:[email protected]
>         <mailto:[email protected]>
>                 <mailto:[email protected]
>         <mailto:[email protected]>>>] *On Behalf Of *Rene
>                 de Haas
>                     *Sent:* Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:26 AM
>                     *To:* [email protected]
>         <mailto:[email protected]>
>                 <mailto:[email protected]
>         <mailto:[email protected]>>
>                     <mailto:[email protected]
>         <mailto:[email protected]>
>                 <mailto:[email protected]
>         <mailto:[email protected]>>>
>                     *Subject:* [NTSysADM] SBS2008, baremetal backup needs
>                 other drive
>                     besides C:
>
>                     Hi,
>
>                     Like in the subject. To be able to restore the
>         system it needs
>                     another drive besides C:
>
>                     I haven't seen yet why that would be. Googling hasn't
>                 given me the
>                     right hint yet.
>
>                     Any Ideas?
>
>                     Thanks
>
>                     René
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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