Good thinking, Ken.  Now that you've got me thinking outside the VE box....

You could Storage vMotion the VM into an NFS datastore, mount the datastore on 
a client machine, then archive the whole VM.

If you wanted to archive a subset of the VM, you could NFS- or CIFS-share a 
filesystem or directory from the VM to the TSM server, then archive it there.

----- Reply message -----
From: "Kenneth Bury" <kenbury1 AT GMAIL DOT COM>
To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Subject: [ADSM-L] VM Archive
Date: Tue, Jul 31, 2012 6:54 PM


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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