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Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

Post by ssnow »

I have a backup with two drives

A 240gb ssd for the server, and a 1TB drive to store wsus data and veeam restore data. The 1TB drive is barely used.

When i try to restore the server with the appliance, It just refuse to map the 1TB disk unless i have a equivalent or bigger disk to restore to.

We should be able to have some form of sliders in the disk management to pick the disk size, and we should see how much data is used on each volume so it make easier to move the sliders.
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Re: Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

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Makes sense. I actually thought we had this feature available already, but apparently it was postponed for v2.
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Feature Request Resize Partition for Restore

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First of all, this is already a great product, easy to use and the features are already working very well in the BETA!
But i'm missing a feature to resize the target size of a partition for (Baremetal-)Restore.

Example: i backed up my systempartition (250GB / 60GB used), i want to restore on another machine with an 80GB harddisk.
This is not possible but would be very handy when resoring to other hardware.

Thanks alot for the nice work!
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Re: Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

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Can I also add my name to the request. I'm currnetly looking to move to an ssd as they are now a lot cheaper than they uesd to be. I've a 500Gb disk but only using 65Gb of it so moving to a 120gb ssd should be easy.
But it would be a real plus point if this product could restore actual data instead of full disk size partiton. Downsizing is good :o)
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Re: Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

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Yes, I have made the same feature request internally when migrating data from my old desktop to the new one :)
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Re: Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

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Before I grab someone's laptop to replace the disk for an ssd, is this feature available in the current version?
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Re: Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

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Hi Wouter,

It not available in the existing version.
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Re: Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

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Request to restore to a smaller disc size!

I wanted to restore to a new solid state drive from my extremely slow 5400rpm 1tb drive. There is only 100gb of space used on the 1tb drive and the backup size is only 92gb.

Please make an option to accommodate this. I know you'll make even more people happy with your current incredible product!
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Re: Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

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Hi Will,
This feature will be available soon - do not forget to enable ‘Automatically check and notify me on available updates’ option in the Endpoint's Control Panel to get a notification regarding upcoming update. Cheers!
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Re: Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

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Hi guys,

I have a little discussion this afternoon with Dmitry, he said that currently there's no ETA for this feature but it will be included first in the next release of Veeam Endpoint.
So I find a quick workaround on a Windows 8.1 computer (I think it works on every version of Windows since the shrink option is included in the disk management console) to shrink a huge amount of free space from my large partition to be able to restore it on a smaller drive, here the steps:
- First you need to turn off hibernation on the computer, run a prompt command as administrator, type powercfg.exe /hibernate off then press Enter.
- Then disable the pagefile, select no paging file and reboot.
- After the reboot turn off system protection for the C:\ drive and reboot again.
- Go to the disk management console and you'll be able to shrink a huge amount of free space on the drive (much more than if you don't follow the 3 first steps).
- After the shrink, turn on system protection and enable the pagefile again.
- Launch a new standalone full backup... and you know the next steps.

Hope this helps.
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Thanks for sharing, we are aiming to release this functionality in early August!
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Re: Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

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Adrien,
That’s a good workaround indeed, but that helps only is you have the OS running. Imagine you are replacing the corrupted HDD with SSD, thus cant boot the windows.

P.S. There is a new blog post with some 1.1 update spoilers – worth checking :wink:
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Awesome. Some fresh news, can't wait. :)
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[MERGED] Feature Request: Restore NTFS to smaller volumes

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A very common case for us, is the backup/restore 'movement' of machines from 'back then' installed system volumes (500gb+) to a lot smaller systems (like 128g ssds). It would be extremely helpful to us, if the restore of 60gb data would use 60g of data and would not require the x-7tb disk that was one-upon-a-time(tm) used to install the 60g system.
Yes, I know this may be a tricky thing, yes, I know the v1 engine will maybe never be able to resize ntfs, but since there is an API to resize ntfs I hope there may be a solution ...
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Re: Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

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Björn, this capability is coming in our next minor update.
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machines from 'back then' installed system volumes (500gb+) to a lot smaller systems (like 128g ssds)
It’s important to understand that used space can’t be properly resized if it contains the actual data blocks or if there are several unmovable blocks.
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Re: Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

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Vitaliy S. wrote:... this capability is coming in our next minor update.
It's not there yet :(
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Re: Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

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I might be missing something but if you are talking about resize during bare metal recovery – its available since 1.1 version. You may need to recreate the recovery media after upgrade in case you are using the previously created one. Check the Help Center article for more details: Resize Restored Volumes
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Re: Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

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Using VEB 1.5, backed up full drive 1TB HD (Recovery Q:, System_Drv, Windows7_OS C:) to a network share. There's only 160GB total on all 3 partitions. HD went bad, can we expect to restore to a new 480GB SSD? If so, what procedure might work?
When I try to restore, it lets me restore Recovery Q: and/or System_Drv, but when I try restore C: it says "volume is larger than specified destination. Shrink volume to fit destination?" OK, then "Analyzing volume's content..", then it shows:

Failed to get VolumeResizeProvider for volume
de561d51-5a5e-19e6-979b-cc52af4bf2x0
Failed to start VDS service.
COM error: Code: 0x80080005

Is this essentially telling us we must restore back to at least 1TB drive, or is there some way we can restore to smaller drive (that is large enough to hold all the restored files)?
Thanks
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Re: Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

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Hi ftcnet,

Unfortunately, I can’t provide any information regarding the error you got. Can you please open a case and supply support team with the recovery log for troubleshooting analysis? Thanks.
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Re: Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

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Went to customer site, booted from Recovery Media, and was able to select Restore and Resize to smaller partition, but after several minutes it shows "The selected volume cannot be resized. Please specify a different destination disk." I don't see any option to create or capture logs from the Bare Metal Recovery.
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Re: Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

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You can open a support case from any live VEB machine and recovery logs are automatically saved in the backup repository. What was the original volume and the desired size?
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[MERGED] Disk Mapping Issue - Restoring from larger drive

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I am trying to restore the backup of my system volume from a 256GB SSD, which recently failed, to a 250GB SSD but when I get to the Disk Mapping option it tells me:

Code: Select all

This volume is larger than the specified destination.
Shrink the volume to fit the destination?
I click okay and then it spits out:

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Failed to set disk layout, disk '\\.\PhysicalDrive4'.
Failed to set drive layout.
Win32 error: The parameter is incorrect
Code: 87
I could only create recovery media from a Windows 10 system that I have available here but the backup itself is for a Windows 7 system. Would this error be anything to do with the version of the OS where I created the Veeam Endpoint Recovery media or is it really the fact that Veeam cannot shrink the backup image size by a measly 6GB? I would really like to use hardware that I've already previously purchased for this instead of needing to buy a brand new 256GB drive.

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Re: Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

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6 GB in disk size should not be a problem if using VEB 1.1 or newer.
I would suggest to contact Veeam support team. Thanks!
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Re: Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

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Shestakov wrote:6 GB in disk size should not be a problem if using VEB 1.1 or newer.
I would suggest to contact Veeam support team. Thanks!
Are they available on weekends?
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Re: Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

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Please take a look at our support policy, search for a FREE product section. Hope this helps!
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Re: Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

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Hi!

I backed up my mobo-raid last night with veb (along with the whole Computer).
Today I removed the raid, installed a decent raid card and re-created the raid with same raid level and disks.

Now I'm trying to restore the volume, but I get an error message "Insufficient disk size".

The volume is 2.72TB, and there's barely 1TB data.

Yes I know I could use "restore files" option, but restoring the whole volume would be handier, and probably faster.
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Re: Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

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Hi hyvokar,
Have you contacted the support team? If yes, please provide the case number.
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Re: Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

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Shestakov wrote:Hi hyvokar,
Have you contacted the support team? If yes, please provide the case number.
I havent. Should feature requests be posted to support team via ticket?
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Re: Feature Request - restore to smaller disk

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For a feature request you don`t need a support case number.
Could you specify the request, please? Because restore to smaller disk is already available.
Thanks!
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