Restore win2k3 to diff partition size

[themtx]

Folks - I have a 9.1 media server and a need to repartition a production box. I've read Veritas' "Disaster Recovery of a Windows 2003 computer" tech tip thing which is a scenario like what I need to accomplish -

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/236240.htm

However, I didn't specifically see any gotchas regarding restoring a system partition to a diff sized slice of disk.

Basically, someone set up the box in question to mirror a larger sized disk onto a smaller sized disk (at the hw level - Dell Perc 3Di), thus wasting the extra space on the larger disk(s). I could convert the volume in question to dynamic and create a new logical partition out on the newly found space, but I'd rather not burden the OS with that extra overhead since I have a HW RAID controller and the option to "make things right" now.

Any ideas if a restore onto a physically smaller system partition will hose things up? The pagefile is set to dynamic, so that shouldn't be an issue, and if it is, I can always boot safe mode and resize / move it as necesasry. The box is not a DC, only a member server, so I anticipate the barebones win2k3 install + backupexec agent w/same name and ip scenario should work.

TIA,

Steve

 

[jgeidl]

Steve,

I guesss I don't understand what you intend to do. Are you going to ad a seoond smaller drive and mirror the two or are you going to install a second large drive and mirror them OR are you going to do away with the mirror entirely?

Jim

 

[justin2000]

Steve

It should be OK - just as long as there is enough room for the restore to happen.

 

[Rols]

Should be fine - remember that BE restores are performed at the file level (as opposed to block level). Worst case scenario --> you run out of room --> the job fails --> & your OS complains that you are low on disk space.