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doomi
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Feature Request: restore VMDKs from Netapp snapshots

Post by doomi »

instant VM recovery with Netapp snapshots works great.
however, sometimes I'd like to restore just a VMDK or even a single VMX file, which is currently not possible with B&R when snapshots are used.

but Netapp has a file clone feature to restore single files from a snapshot.
so it would be great if Veeam B&R could use this Netapp feature for VMDK and VMX file restores.

thanks!
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Re: Feature Request: restore VMDKs from Netapp snapshots

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Dominic, thanks for the feature request!
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Re: Feature Request: restore VMDKs from Netapp snapshots

Post by dellock6 »

As a workaround, you can still use Instant Recovery , avoid to power on the virtual machine, and restore the needed files.
While a vmx file doesn't require any special operation, you need to "trick" a bit the vmdk file to change its uuid to not conflict with the original one, I wrote how to do this in a blog post a year ago:
http://www.virtualtothecore.com/en/rest ... -recovery/

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