On 25 sep 2009, at 16:15, Buddy Howeth wrote:
When you backup a VM, you are getting a snapshot of the computer you are saving, if you later need to restore a specific file on that VM and you didn't install the client then you only have the snapshot and you must restore the entire snapshot, convert it back into a VM and then copy out what you need.
with VCB? In what implementation of which client?
If you don't use a client to get the indivdual changes at the file system level, then you have to take a snapshot everyday and still deal with restoring the entire VM and conversion when you need to do a restore. We are using 5.5 and have 3 ESX servers hosting 20 VMs. We are in the process of ordering another ESX server to increase our VM farm.
Again, in what implementation of which client?
TSM 6.x may change how this works, but we are using 5.5 with VCB and this is how it works. Been up and running more than a year now.
Ah, in my limited understanding of the TSM 5.5 client's VM capabilities (I prefer the STORServer VCB agent), it was capable of actually making a file-level incremental of your VM guests. Making full image backups is nice for DR, but otherwise quite useless, as you pointed out. -- Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind regards, Remco Post
