Snapshot of a single drive.

[BlackHatter]

Does anyone know if it is possible to snapshot a single drive. I have a VM with three drives, C, D, E. D has my database that I would like to snapshot - I don't need the OS on C:. Can I snapshot a single drive a restore it to my test server's D partition?

If it is not built into windows does anyone know of an application that can do this?

Would it be easier to snapshot the LUN (that has only D partition on it) from the SAN and restore it to D on another SAN LUN?

[uslacker99]

You can't do this with ESX 3. Perhaps you can snapshot the whole VM and then copy off the underlying file wherever you need to and then remove the snapshot.

[BryanMcC]

use this tool its easy to use and works for me like a charm

http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/down.htm

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[osde_info]

we use vmbk.pl (& vmkfstools) and edit .vmx to specify which disks should / should be backed up

regards

clive (aka osde.info)