I think TSM Client you can restore file-level or full level. Also you can save incremental backup during the week days and full backup each 7 or 15 or .. days.
----- Mensaje original ---- De: "Schaub, Steve" <steve_sch...@bcbst.com> Para: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Enviado: viernes, 25 de septiembre, 2009 18:34:45 Asunto: Re: Backing up virtual machines And with the Storserver Agent you can restore file-level back to the guest machine without needing the TSM client installed on the guest, only on the proxy. Steve Schaub Systems Engineer, Windows BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Remco Post Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 10:58 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backing up virtual machines 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 ----------------------------------------------------- Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm
