Image size

[seb]

Hi,

Anybody know if is it possible to change the image size in order to restore image on smaller disk ?
IBM says no but i know there are crazy boys on adsm.org !!

Image Size   Stored Size  FSType     Backup Date           Mgmt Class   A/I Image Name
  ----------   -----------   ------     -------------------   ----------    --- ---------
 1   12,76 GB    5.88 GB      NTFS       12/11/2008 15:11:14  DEFAULT     A   \\node\c$
 2   54,94 GB    1.94 GB      NTFS       12/11/2008 15:24:21  DEFAULT     A   \\node\d$

Thanks

 

[moon-buddy]

Nope. Unless you compress the image FIRST before doing an Image backup, but this is not what you want.

 

[SpecialK]

Use of VM

You "could" create a VM with a disk the correct size, then recover to that.

Then backup the VM using a file-level backup. then recover to your smaller disk.

But it is going around the houses a bit. You'd also need a dissimilar hardware restore product (like TBMR, not sure about Storix - does it do dissimilar restores?)