Hyper-V restore virtual hard disks Let say we always setup our servers like
- Drive 1: C:\ System
- Drive 2: D:\ Data
The system drive will always be only 60 GB, and the data drive can be what needed, lets say 500 GB.
At the moment we use a other back-up solution, and what we do some times when a system is broken. We restore only the C:\ drive from the back-up, because the data is drive is still correct. And then we can simply replace the virtual hard drive, with the C:\ drive from the day before.
With Cloudberry I can get my C:\ partition from a backup, but this need to restore the complete virtual machine, with all hard disks. So it also restore the D:\ drive, what I don't need. So it takes to much time with restoring.
And a item level recovery will not work, on a broken system. Because you don't know what files are broken and what NTFS rights are needed. For us, the fastest way to get a broken system back-up up is to:
1. Download the system drive back-up
2. Shutdown the virtual machine
3. Rename the drive to .old
4. Copy the backup VHDX to the location
5. Startup the server, and check whats the fuck happend why it was broken,
Just takes 60 GB data of you're time. I hope you can add an option by restore, to select what drives to restore.