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Differential Restore of a drive to another server

klwright
over 6 years ago

I have an old server I am needing to retire. One of the drives I need to restore to a new server. This drive is rather large at just under 8 TB. I performed a redirected restore to the new server, (not live recovery). That took a little over a week to complete. Is there a way to do a live recovery of that drive to the new server that is a differential so that only the changes are restored? Just looking for the best and fastest way to complete this.

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  • 0 over 6 years ago
    Within the product there is not a 'file comparison' restore function that will look at what is there and make a decision on what to keep and what not to keep. The restores, as you did, will replace the volume you specify with the volume that is in the recovery, the entire volume. You can replace entire volumes, individual files and/or folders, or build VMs (or virtual disks) with the restores.

    The only way I can think that you 'could' do this is to mount the recovery point and then use a file comparison utility against the mount point and the production volume to see what files have been updated more recently.

    I get what you are saying, however such a feature to compare files during the restore process is not within the RRs toolkit at this point in time.
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  • 0 over 6 years ago
    Within the product there is not a 'file comparison' restore function that will look at what is there and make a decision on what to keep and what not to keep. The restores, as you did, will replace the volume you specify with the volume that is in the recovery, the entire volume. You can replace entire volumes, individual files and/or folders, or build VMs (or virtual disks) with the restores.

    The only way I can think that you 'could' do this is to mount the recovery point and then use a file comparison utility against the mount point and the production volume to see what files have been updated more recently.

    I get what you are saying, however such a feature to compare files during the restore process is not within the RRs toolkit at this point in time.
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