ASR recovery fails - the capacity of the current system disk drive is insufficient
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From: Thomas Moeller Nexoe on 21 Jan 2010 01:54 On 20-01-2010 22:08, John John - MVP wrote: > Thomas Moeller Nexoe wrote: >>> The USB backup disk is bigger than the system disk and ASR thinks that >>> it can't hold the contents of the disk. Try creating a partition equal >>> or slightly smaller than the system disk on the USB backup disk and see >>> if things change. >>> >>> John >> >> John, that's a thought allright. >> But if this is the case, I will think that the ASR backup feature is >> worth the same as Windows Vista. >> >> The SAS hardisk is 73GB and the USB drive we use for the ASR test is 4GB. >> In the production environment we will use the same size of hardrive >> for the server but will propably use a 16GB USB drive. >> But if I need to partition the USB drive to match the content of the >> ASR backup (which I guess will change for every backup we make), I >> don't believe this will be woth much over time. > > ?? Are you putting the backups on USB sticks? (4GB & 16GB?) Most folks > rely on disk imaging tools instead of ASR. > > John Well we rely on raid, normal backup and then for disaster recovery we use boot disks and ASR. -- Best regards, Thomas Moeller Nexoe -------------------------------------- Website: http://www.winfrastructure.dk Blog: http://www.winfrastructure.net |