I have Windows 2008R2 installed on an IBM x3300 M4 with a Serveraid M5110 RAID controller running RAID 5 on 5x 600GB SAS HDDs. The total size of the partition is approximately 2.17TB.
When configuring Windows Server Backup, I select a custom backup and select the following items: Bare metal recovery, System state, EFI System Partition and C:. The config then fails because it does not support partitions greater than 2TB. I was thinking of just shrinking the partition as mentioned in this earlier article to get around the issue:http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/282917-how-to-split-raid-5-partition?page=1#entry-3435321
I am a bit hesitant in running the shrink as I have users who access programs, files and folders on the server so Iwould just like some confirmation thatshrinking the partition won't cause any issues and that it can be...