Hello All, I am trying to backup a windows 10 pc and and restore it on a different machine so I have a backup PC ready to rock if something happens to the current one, the first PC has the windows files etc on a 1TB SSD but it only has 100GB used on it and I want to restore that onto the new PC but only onto a 256GB SSD so I don’t have wasted space, but in doing the back up the veeam software backs up the whole 1TB drive and when trying to install on the new 256GB SSD I get a VDS storage error and it doesn’t restore.
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If you are doing restore using the ISO media you can during the restore process change the disk sizing. See this link - https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/agentforwindows/userguide/baremetal_disk_mapping.html?ver=60
Hey Chris,
Im still getting the same error after trying to resize the disk space: Resizing (C:) Error: Volume resize (shrink) has failed. VDS error.
i just don’t understand why the backup has got the whole drive backed up when there is only 100GB of data on it.
Is there a way to change the backup so it’s only backing up the data on the SSD not the whole 1TB drive?
Veeam does not backup the files on a drive only, it saves the information about the filesystem and volume, too.
Please have a look at this help page:
BTW - are you using NTFS filesystem on this volume? The resize will not work with other filesystems.
As Joe said Veeam backs up the volume information. Check the link he posted about resizing hopefully that helps.
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