Cloning a partition

[marius roma]

How can I use Veeam B&R to clone a partition?
On a vSphere 5 infrastructure I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 based VM with a vDisk (vDisk1) whose size is 50 GB.
Partition 1 is 30 GB wide and Partition B is 20 GB wide.
I need to enlarge Partition 1 so I plan to creare a new vDisk (vDisk2) to host Partition B in order to free space on vDisk1 to enlarge Partition 1.
All the features of the files included in Partition 2 must be preserved, including ownership, security, authorization and so on.
How can I use Veeam B&R to move Partition 2 from vDisk 1 to vDisk2 maintaining all the files and properties?
Regards
marius

[veremin]

In fact, Veeam doesn’t work on a partition level, but on a virtual disk one, instead. So, it doesn’t seem to be a perfect solution in this case.

From my perspective, in order to copy data from one existing partition to a new one you’d rather utilize native Windows tools, like Robocopy with special switches responsible for preserving required information (attribures, permissions, etc.).

As to necessary Robocopy switches, /COPYALL appears to be exactly what you’re after:

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/COPYALL:: COPY ALL file info (equivalent to /COPY:DATSOU). Copies the Data, Attributes, Timestamps, Ownser, Permissions and Auditing info.

Hope this helps.
Thanks.

[marius roma]

Thank you for the answer.
To be honest it's the solution I used in the past.
I was just looking for a smarter solution...
Regards
marius

[veremin]

I think Robocopy would more than enough in this case, especially, when there is no huge amount of data that needs to be copied - only 20 GB. So, you should be good with the aforesaid scenario.

If any additional questions arise, don’t hesitate to let us know. Thanks.

[homerjnick]

Since it is Server 2008 can you not just grow the vdisk and then in Disk Management grow partition 2, or even use simple partition tools to resize them?