Help needed with restoring from backup

Hello all,
I have a Small Business Server 2008 Standard that had a failed data hard
drive. The failed drive is 1 Tb and only held 189 Gb of information.

I have replaced the bad drive with a 500 Gb but I cannot restore to it
becasue the size of the original drive is larger. It doesn't seem to matter
that there is not very much data involved.

How can I overcome the 1 Tb requirement for a replacement HDD.

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>
> Hello all,
> I have a Small Business Server 2008 Standard that had a failed data hard
> drive. The failed drive is 1 Tb and only held 189 Gb of information.
>
> I have replaced the bad drive with a 500 Gb but I cannot restore to it
> becasue the size of the original drive is larger. It doesn't seem to matter
> that there is not very much data involved.
>
> How can I overcome the 1 Tb requirement for a replacement HDD.

That was my major complaint with SBS 08 backup/restore, the replacement
drive MUST be the same size or larger.

In the event of a server failure where we were testing on a 500GB RAID
setup, we faulted the array on purpose and were able to restore quickly
as our test, but, with only 100GB of data on the array we killed the
array, installed Dual 250GB drives and were NEVER able to restore the OS
to the system - that's a complete flaw/failure in my opinion.

1TB drives are cheap, just order a new one.

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I am using the native SBS 2008 backup facility.

I will attempt to restore by files instead of by drive. So simple yet I
didn't think of that? I will advise tomorrow.



"Bill Sanderson" wrote:

> Do you have any other 1TB drives you could use as an intermediary--restore to the other drive, then copy the data to the new smaller drive in the server?
>
> If, rather than recovering the whole volume, you choose to recover files and folders (and simply check off all of them)--does this get around the issue?
>
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc772028.aspx
>
> I take it this is using the native SBS 2008 backup facility?
>
>
> "Don C" <> wrote in message news:26633C0F-8528-4BD5-B411-...
> > Hello all,
> > I have a Small Business Server 2008 Standard that had a failed data hard
> > drive. The failed drive is 1 Tb and only held 189 Gb of information.
> >
> > I have replaced the bad drive with a 500 Gb but I cannot restore to it
> > becasue the size of the original drive is larger. It doesn't seem to matter
> > that there is not very much data involved.
> >
> > How can I overcome the 1 Tb requirement for a replacement HDD.