This evening I joined a WebEx meeting with Azmir Mohamed, VMware’s Product Manager for VMware Data Recovery. He demoed the future version of the VDR File Level Restore feature AKA the "Data Recovery Restore Client", it’s launched from within a virtual machine and enables access to the contents of restore points. Using this client, you can view and copy individual files that were backed up as a result of backing up an entire virtual machine.
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
The future version of VDR File Level Restore has a GUI
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Eric Yes nice stuff I'm going to use it here for the backup of 30 VM's. Just to get the 'hot' VMDK layout.
Thanks.
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John Willemse
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2009-10-20 21:50
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How will/does VDR differentiate from phdVirtual's esXpress software??
I read there's a 500 GB limit, is this true??
Does VDR do de-duplication??
Thank you, Tom
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Tom
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2009-10-20 23:08
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Great Eric,
It will get even better. Any news concerning FLR for Linux guests? I know that they're working on it too...
Tom,
VDR does deduplicaiton using deduplication store. Works like charm. You can find out more here: http://www.vladan.fr/vmware-data-recovery-a-tool-for-easy-backups-of-your-virtual-infrastructure/
Vladan
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Vladan
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2009-10-21 04:48
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Thanks for the info as I am looking at VDR. Do you know when (ETA) VDR File Level Restore to be release? vSphere Update 1?
Also, VDR currently is agent-less. Which the "Data Recovery Restore Client" running from within VM ... is that meant there is an agent installed in the VM?
Cheers,
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Bac Nguyen
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2009-10-29 16:07
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It's in the current production version now.
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Eric Sloof
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2010-10-07 20:53
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Thanks for the info. What is the current status since the post dates from 2009.
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martin
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2010-10-07 20:40
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