Restoring Backed Up Volumes To Internal LUN

For each volume you want to restore onto the replacement partition image, use the wbadmin start recovery command to restore from the backup files:

wbadmin start recovery -ItemType:Volume -Items:<original drive letter> 
-BackupTarget:<backup share> -Machine:<original machine name> 
-Version:<date and time of backup> -RecoveryTarget:<new drive letter>

Note: When prompted, enter appropriate credentials for accessing the backup files on the network.

Example

wbadmin start recovery -ItemType:Volume -Items:C: 
-BackupTarget:\\172.31.1.11\BackupShare -Machine:W12R2Test1 
-Version:02/05/2015-21:17 -RecoveryTarget:C:

If you backed up volumes other than the C: volume, the drive letters in the recovery environment might be different from the letters under the Windows Server operating system. If that is the case, the –Items parameter specifies the letter at the time the backup was done, and the –RecoveryTarget parameter specifies the drive letter to which the volume should be restored in the Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE). If needed, you can correct the volume letters later, after booting into the restored C: drive.

To identify the volumes currently associated with drive letters, do one of the following in the recovery environment: