Have you considered mounting the VM backup and then running the archive?
It's similar to a feature Fastback has for moving data to TSM for long term
storage.

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Shawn Drew <
shawn.drew AT americas.bnpparibas DOT com> wrote:

> Looked through the manual today and can't find any information on
> archiving VM data.    Is there a way to archive data from a VMware guest
> (file-level or image) without installing a client on the actual guest?
> There doesn't seem to be an "archive vm" command
>
> Regards,
> Shawn
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