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Thanks! Diskpart will do exactly what I want.
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Thanks! Diskpart will do exactly what I want.

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meyersd, could you explain how you managed to use diskpart to automate this? &nbsp;I am faced with the exact same issue at the moment. &nbsp;I am unsure how to use diskpart to identify the newly mapped snapshot from the SAN and then to import it.<br />
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Thanks
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meyersd, could you explain how you managed to use diskpart to automate this?  I am faced with the exact same issue at the moment.  I am unsure how to use diskpart to identify the newly mapped snapshot from the SAN and then to import it.

Thanks

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Hi,<br />
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I'm a newbie at this - I need to import a SAN-based snapshot of a dynamic disk on a Windows 2003 server for backups. The SAN vendor tools work perfectly with basic disks, but not with dynamic, so I'm trying to work out a way to automate the import of the dynamic disk database using PowerShell.<br />
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Any thoughts gratefully received!
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Hi,

I'm a newbie at this - I need to import a SAN-based snapshot of a dynamic disk on a Windows 2003 server for backups. The SAN vendor tools work perfectly with basic disks, but not with dynamic, so I'm trying to work out a way to automate the import of the dynamic disk database using PowerShell.

Any thoughts gratefully received!

Can I import a dynamic disk using PowerShell?

Windows PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework. PowerShell provides full access to the Component Object Model (COM) and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), enabling administrators to perform administrative tasks on both local and remote Windows systems as well as WS-Management and Common Information Model (CIM) enabling management of remote Linux systems and network devices.

Powershell

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

The Microsoft Server topic includes all of the legacy versions of the operating system, including the Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and Windows Home Server versions.