Guest Ole Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Hi everybody, is there a way to access VHD Files (2008 64Bit backup files) without restoring the whole drive? Can they be mounted as drives? If not on the host system, can I try on a virtual machine? Thanks for your time Ole
Guest Meinolf Weber Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Re: Mounting VHD Files Hello Ole, From: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc462796(TechNet.10).aspx You can actually take a backup image and mount it as a volume in a virtual machine running under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. You can simply mount the VHDs in a virtual machine and browse for a particular file rather than having to perform test restores of tapes to see which one has the file is on it. (A note of caution: you can't take a backup image and boot a virtual machine from it. Since the backed-up hardware configuration doesn't correspond to the virtual machine's configuration, you can't use Windows Server Backup as a physical-to-virtual migration tool.) http://www.petri.co.il/mounting-vhd-files-with-vhdmount.htm Best regards Meinolf Weber Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm > Hi everybody, > > is there a way to access VHD Files (2008 64Bit backup files) without > restoring the whole drive? Can they be mounted as drives? If not on > the host system, can I try on a virtual machine? > > Thanks for your time > > Ole >
Guest Ole Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Re: Mounting VHD Files Hi Meinolf, thanks for your quick response. As I pointed out in my first posting, I am running Server2008. Does this OS not have the capability to mount VHD itself? Do I have to work around it with Hyper-V VMs? VirtualServer2005 only makes sense on Server2003 as 2008 comes with Hyper-V, right? Ole "Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:ff16fb66a49b28cabc0b3c3cb690@msnews.microsoft.com... > Hello Ole, > > From: > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc462796(TechNet.10).aspx > > You can actually take a backup image and mount it as a volume in a virtual > machine running under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. You can simply mount > the VHDs in a virtual machine and browse for a particular file rather than > having to perform test restores of tapes to see which one has the file is > on it. (A note of caution: you can't take a backup image and boot a > virtual machine from it. Since the backed-up hardware configuration > doesn't correspond to the virtual machine's configuration, you can't use > Windows Server Backup as a physical-to-virtual migration tool.) > > http://www.petri.co.il/mounting-vhd-files-with-vhdmount.htm > > Best regards > > Meinolf Weber > Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and > confers no rights. > ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups > ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm > >> Hi everybody, >> >> is there a way to access VHD Files (2008 64Bit backup files) without >> restoring the whole drive? Can they be mounted as drives? If not on >> the host system, can I try on a virtual machine? >> >> Thanks for your time >> >> Ole >> > >
Guest Meinolf Weber Posted July 25, 2008 Posted July 25, 2008 Re: Mounting VHD Files Hello Ole, Maybe this also works on 2008: http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/01/tell-me-vhdmount-story-installing-just.html But Virtual server 2005 R2 SP1 with Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Update will also work together with server 2008. Best regards Meinolf Weber Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm > Hi Meinolf, > > thanks for your quick response. > > As I pointed out in my first posting, I am running Server2008. Does > this OS not have the capability to mount VHD itself? Do I have to work > around it with Hyper-V VMs? > > VirtualServer2005 only makes sense on Server2003 as 2008 comes with > Hyper-V, right? > > Ole > > "Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag > news:ff16fb66a49b28cabc0b3c3cb690@msnews.microsoft.com... > >> Hello Ole, >> >> From: >> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc462796(TechNet.10).aspx >> You can actually take a backup image and mount it as a volume in a >> virtual machine running under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. You can >> simply mount the VHDs in a virtual machine and browse for a >> particular file rather than having to perform test restores of tapes >> to see which one has the file is on it. (A note of caution: you can't >> take a backup image and boot a virtual machine from it. Since the >> backed-up hardware configuration doesn't correspond to the virtual >> machine's configuration, you can't use Windows Server Backup as a >> physical-to-virtual migration tool.) >> >> http://www.petri.co.il/mounting-vhd-files-with-vhdmount.htm >> >> Best regards >> >> Meinolf Weber >> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and >> confers no rights. >> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups >> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm >>> Hi everybody, >>> >>> is there a way to access VHD Files (2008 64Bit backup files) without >>> restoring the whole drive? Can they be mounted as drives? If not on >>> the host system, can I try on a virtual machine? >>> >>> Thanks for your time >>> >>> Ole >>>
Guest Bill Grant Posted July 25, 2008 Posted July 25, 2008 Re: Mounting VHD Files Have you tried mounting it as an extra vhd to a vm running under Hyper-V? Did it work? If not, what problems did you have? "Ole" <o.weigelt@officeworks.de> wrote in message news:OwuWMZe7IHA.2224@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Hi Meinolf, > > thanks for your quick response. > > As I pointed out in my first posting, I am running Server2008. Does this > OS not have the capability to mount VHD itself? Do I have to work around > it with Hyper-V VMs? > > VirtualServer2005 only makes sense on Server2003 as 2008 comes with > Hyper-V, right? > > Ole > > "Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag > news:ff16fb66a49b28cabc0b3c3cb690@msnews.microsoft.com... >> Hello Ole, >> >> From: >> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc462796(TechNet.10).aspx >> >> You can actually take a backup image and mount it as a volume in a >> virtual machine running under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. You can >> simply mount the VHDs in a virtual machine and browse for a particular >> file rather than having to perform test restores of tapes to see which >> one has the file is on it. (A note of caution: you can't take a backup >> image and boot a virtual machine from it. Since the backed-up hardware >> configuration doesn't correspond to the virtual machine's configuration, >> you can't use Windows Server Backup as a physical-to-virtual migration >> tool.) >> >> http://www.petri.co.il/mounting-vhd-files-with-vhdmount.htm >> >> Best regards >> >> Meinolf Weber >> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and >> confers no rights. >> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups >> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm >> >>> Hi everybody, >>> >>> is there a way to access VHD Files (2008 64Bit backup files) without >>> restoring the whole drive? Can they be mounted as drives? If not on >>> the host system, can I try on a virtual machine? >>> >>> Thanks for your time >>> >>> Ole >>> >> >> >
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