Every time we snapshot a VM, we have the option of doing the entire farm
or just a single vm.  When we do a single VM, we are getting the entire
machine, not just what changed.  We use the B/A client to get the
individual file level changes.  If we dump the entire farm, we get
snapshots for every machine in the VM farm and the snapshots are the
entire machine.

The is from our VM guy.

Buddy Howeth
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Craig McAllister <craigy AT GMAIL DOT COM>
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Hi Buddy,
   I'm afraid I have to disagree somewhat. You've only described the
"fullvm" backup option, and that's not what most people use, at least on
Windows.

   The TSM default behaviour is actually to back up individual files from
each guest (windows) to each node set up for that guest. Doing a restore
only requires a guest to have TSM installed if you *want* to restore
there.
You could alternatively use the usual restore asnode (grant proxy) stuff,
if
you prefer - and that's what most of my VCB customers do.

  Hope that clarifies things a bit.

Craig McAllister

2009/9/25 Buddy Howeth <BHoweth AT pcoastp DOT com>

> 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.

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