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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for Hyper-V Administrator's Guide
  3. Windows Server failover cluster support
  4. Hyper-V restore may fail if the VM was created on a CSV and the CSV is a reparse point on the destination drive
Veritas NetBackup™ for Hyper-V Administrator's Guide

Hyper-V restore may fail if the VM was created on a CSV and the CSV is a reparse point on the destination drive

For Windows server 2008 and 2008 R2: NetBackup blocks the attempt to restore a Hyper-V VM to an alternate location in the following case:

  • The VM was created on a Hyper-V Cluster Shared Volume (CSV),

  • The CSV is mounted as a reparse point on a local drive on the Hyper-V server,

  • The reparse point on the local drive is specified as the destination for the restore,

  • And the VM is larger than the space available on the local destination drive.

For example:

  • The CSV is a reparse point on local drive C (C:\ClusterStorage\Volume2). The reparse point is specified as the destination for the restore.

  • The CSV has 50 GB of free space, but the C:\ drive has only 10 GB of free space.

  • The VM to restore is 30 GB in size.

In this case, NetBackup identifies the 10 GB of free space on the Hyper-V C:\ drive. It does not identify the 50 GB of free space on the CSV. NetBackup fails the pre-recovery check and the restore job does not begin. In the NetBackup Restore Marked Files dialog, the following message appears:

Data may not be restored successfully - there is not enough space 
available in the destination directory.

For VMs on Windows 2008 R2 and earlier Hyper-V servers, do the following: For the restore location, select a drive on the Hyper-V server that has free space at least equal to the size of the VM.

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