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Bill_Felt
17 years agoLevel 6
Hello,
I do have one possible idea for you, but I'm not sure if it's feasible for your implementation.
When restoring a recovery point using the Backup Exec System Recovery (BESR) 7.0 recovery disk, you are given the option to resize the volume being restored to a custom size. For example, if the original volume from which the recovery point was taken was 100GB in size, but only contained 10GB of data, you could restore the recovery point to a smaller drive (or section of free space) and tell the restore process to resize the volume smaller to fit. As long as the target space can hold the data, you can resize the volume smaller.
So, if you knew before hand how much data was contained in the recovery points you'd like to convert to a virtual environment, you could create a "place holder" hard drive in the VM of the desired size. Then, instead of converting the recovery point to VMDK format, simply boot the VM with the recovery disk and restore the recovery point within the VM environment to the place holder hard drive, and tell the recovery process to resize it appropriately.
Just a thought.
Thanks.
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