VCB only gives you a backup, to restore you'll need to use your normal restore method.
There are two ways to back up a VM with VCB, you can back up individual files (which will let you do pseudo-differentials) or you can back up the VMDK files themselves. We tried both, the second was more reliable but still seemed half baked. To restore a file you can just mount the VMDK file on a Linux box (or a Windows box if it's NTFS/FAT) and copy it over.
VCB is a great idea, I just don't think it's quite ready yet.
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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Glenn Dekhayser Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:02 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: VMware - snap - backup
Just curious, what is the opinion of VCB here? I see that it is a good way to grab individual files within a vmdk, but what about restoring these files?
Is there a better way to do this that anyone has found?
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Holloway, Chris Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 8:16 AM To: jesper@harderconsult.dk; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: VMware - snap - backup
I think VCB requires that you are running Virtual Center so you will need to deploy that.
Chris
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