If we're getting off in to 3rd party products, check out the Veeam Backup &
Recovery product (http://www.veeam.com)



Bill Boyer
"Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the
sun." -Unknown-



-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Schaub, Steve
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 12:35 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Backing up virtual machines

And with the Storserver Agent you can restore file-level back to the guest
machine without needing the TSM client installed on the guest, only on the
proxy.

Steve Schaub
Systems Engineer, Windows
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Remco Post
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 10:58 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backing up virtual machines

On 25 sep 2009, at 16:15, Buddy Howeth wrote:

> 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.

with VCB? In what implementation of which client?

>
> If you don't use a client to get the indivdual changes at the file
> system
> level, then you have to take a snapshot everyday and still deal with
> restoring the entire VM and conversion when you need to do a
> restore.  We
> are using 5.5 and have 3 ESX servers hosting 20 VMs.  We are in the
> process of ordering another ESX server to increase our VM farm.
>

Again, in what implementation of which client?
>
> TSM 6.x may change how this works, but we are using 5.5 with VCB and
> this
> is how it works.  Been up and running more than a year now.



Ah, in my limited understanding of the TSM 5.5 client's VM
capabilities (I prefer the STORServer VCB agent), it was capable of
actually making a file-level incremental of your VM guests. Making
full image backups is nice for DR, but otherwise quite useless, as you
pointed out.

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Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind regards,

Remco Post

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