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Re: [Veritas-bu] Flashbackup restores

2008-02-29 18:32:16
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Flashbackup restores
From: A Darren Dunham <ddunham AT taos DOT com>
To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:19:12 +0000
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 04:49:51PM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote:
> > Is there a work-around? As I understand it, it's all or nothing with Full
> > restores on Flashbackup.
> 
> If you want to expand the volume, do a file-based restore from your Flash
> backups.  You'll take longer to do the restore, but the volume will be
> expanded.
> 
> I wouldn't be surprised, though, if there wasn't a 3rd party hack to expand
> the size of that volume to let you use the remaining 148GB.  Check into
> something like Partition Magic or something along those lines.   I'm not
> that good with Windows though - try it with a test volume first (unless you
> like restores :-)).

Exactly what I was thinking.  Windows isn't in an unstable state, and
there are certainly tools out there that can shrink and expand NTFS
filesystems.  

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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