Individual File Restores VCB virtual Backups
Hi All,
I just recently setup our virtual center backup environment using a vcb proxy server, and backing up over san. I am running netbackup 6.5.3 on both my master server and my proxy server. I am able to backup virtual machines with no problems and on my restores, if I select restore from virtual machine backup, then I can see the vm files to restore.
The problem I'm having is with the individual file restores for virtual backups. I've followed the directions on Symantec's documentation and I can't get them to show up. I have tried the following snapshot options to no avail: full vm and file for incremental, fullvm, and Mapped FullVM. I am doig flashbackup for windows as per documentation. Everytime I try to select Normal backups as the documentation tells me, then netbackup notifies me that there are no files to restore.
Any help is appreciated, Thanks
p.s. Really don't like the new forums
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Individual File Restores VCB virtual Backups
Have you try mounting the VMDK with the vmdk-mount tool? then you can copy the files from VMDK to your VM, also VIBE from NetApp do a very good job, off course if you are using NetApp for your VMFS.
Omar A Villa
Netbackup Expert
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In your FlashBackup-Windows
In your FlashBackup-Windows policy in the SnapShot Options do you have the Virtual Machine Backup set to 3?
Regards,
Benjamin Schmaus
yes, I have tried it with
yes, I have tried it with options 1,2, and 3...
I could try restoring the vmdk to a different location, but Netbackup is suppose to allow individual file restores...
thanks
Are you doing this! Policy
Are you doing this!
Policy type for Restore: FlashBackup-Windows
Restore Type: Restore from Normal Backup.
Thanks, Karthikeyan Sundaram.
Post a screenshot of your
Post a screenshot of your Backup Archive Restore screen.
Regards,
Benjamin Schmaus
I had the same problem.
Been there and solved that. To fix this problem check the following:
In your policy, click on the Snapshot Client Options Button
Where you Snapshot mount point is listed make sure it looks like this under Value:
x:\MountPointname
Make sure that there is no slash at the end, for some reason this cause the policy not list individual files. Once I removed the slash everything started to work.
Hope it does the same for you.
That fixed it
Conny, you are amazing. That's all it took was removing that slash and I can do individual restores now. Thanks for the help.
That should be listed in a document somenwhere :)
perhpas in Netbackup for
perhpas in Netbackup for VMware troubleshooting guide. Let me look in to this.
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