I recently noticed that the actual size of the data drive is only 30 GB but the weekly backup creates a VHD of 65 GB.This is not happening for all servers but for most of the server.Why is it so..and how can i get the correct VHD size..60 GB VHD does't make sence for 30 GB data.
2. If any moment of time if i have to restore entire Active Directory on windows 2008 R2 then is is the process same as windows 2003..means going to DSRM mode,restoring the backup,authoritative restore or is there any difference..
3. I also noticed that if i have a backup VHD of one server (Lets Say A) and if i copy that Backup to other server (Let Say B) then windows 2008 only gives me an option to attach the VHD to server B but through backup utlity is there any way to restore the data from the VHD,Currently i am doing copy paste from VHD to server B data drive but that is not the correct way of doing it..Is it a limitation of windows 2008?
Senior System Engineer.