copy vhd from a tape backup NOT restore

[bino85]

Hi all,

This seems like a pretty straightforward thing to do but I cant get it to work. All I want to do is copy a vhd from a backup tape. I dont want to restore the live vhd file. Just copy a vhd from tape to another location on the drive which I'll copy to a usb. 

I click restore, I select the tape in the drive, the vhd I want to restore, I set redirection to the path where I want the file to get copied and I specify source as our tape drive. When I run the job it will tell me the virtual machine is on and the job fails. I dont want to copy over our live vhd. Why is it telling me that i have to shuttoff the virtual machine when all I want to do is copy a vhd from tape to a different location on the drive? Arcserve makes this process very simple.

 

[pkh]

This is because the vhd file is backed up by the Hyper-V agent and it is not a backup of an ordinary file.

[bino85]

Thanks for the reply. So how do I go about copying the vhd from tape to disc? is it only possible by shutting down the VM?

[pkh]

You can try duplicating the backup set to disk and see whether you get the vhd in the .img folder.

[Colin_Weaver]

Try redirected to a non-Hyper-V configured server as this might restore the VHD without trying to add it into Hyper-V (just an idea, not sure if it will work as I have not tried it)