Recover VMWare

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This page has detailed steps on how to recover VMWare machines that have been imported into NetBackup.

Step 1

Login to the NetBackup GUI and navigate to Backup, Archive and Restore section.

NBU-RestoreFiles.jpg

Step 2

Click on the Restore Files tab and select the Source Client, Destination and type of Policy to restore the VMWare backup files. The Policy Type will be Standard as we are just restoring them as files.

VMWare-RestorePolicy.jpg

Step 3

Under Browse Directory select the Virtual Machine files to restore under the images folder.

VMWare-BrowseDirectory.jpg

Step 4

Choose to restore to a different location, and change the target destination to a temporary location on the NetBackup Server itself or to a shared location. In our case we used the location /NBU_restore/VMWare.

VMWare-RestoreDirectory.jpg

Step 5

Re-create the folder for the Virtual Machine in the Datastore of an ESXi host, i.e. /Datastore01/CentOS6.8

VMWare-CreateDirectory.jpg

Step 6

Copy contents from the temporary restore location (/NBU_restore/VMWare) to the root of the newly created folder on the ESXi host as shown on the picture below.

VMWare-CopiedContents.jpg

Step 7

Use a text editor to examine the contents of the VMDK file, and look for the name of the "flat.vmdk" file.

In our case it is named "CentOS6.8-flat.vmdk", copy/ make a note of this name.

Step 7

Notice that the hard drive files would have been renamed to scsi0_0, this file needs to be renamed to the value of the "flat.vmdk". i.e. CentOS6.8-flat.vmdk




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