Vista - Idea: BKF to VHD converter

You know what would be good, some application that will turn an
Windows NTBackup .BKF file into a VHD file.

That way, one can use take a backup and a P2V conversion easily.
Great for disaster recovery.

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:09:09 -0800 (PST), virtual2888@xxxxxx wrote:
Well,
you could mount a new VHD disk as a second drive in a virtual machine,
then use its recovery function to restore from the BKF file
(accessible via networking from the host maybe) to the blank disk.

That would use existing functionality to do the restore...

P2V is not really only about converting a drive to a VHD virtual
drive. A lot of other issues come up such as the hardware differences
between the physical machine and the virtual one. That is more
important than the data conversion between drive types.

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Bo Berglund (Sweden)

Did you know that with Vista Ultimate a full backup creates a .vhd file.
I have mounted such a backup using the vhdmount tool from virtual server,
and it is a true vhd file, though I don't know if one can boot up the vhd in
virtual server, as I did not try it.

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On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:55:24 -0800, Bender wrote:
You can't. The VHDs created this way are not bootable.

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Paul Adare
MVP - Identity Lifecycle Manager
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Good to know, now I don't have to bother trying.

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