Backup Exec VM Backup - Different Datastores
Hi,
Just wondering if someone could help with this issue.
We are carrying out backups of our VMWare Virtual Machines using Backup Exec 15. Some of the VM's have two drives on seperate datastores (for example, C:\ drive on Datastore01 and D:\ drive on Datastore02).
When Backup Exec backs up the VM's, it changes the name of one of the servers drives VMDK file buy adding a "(1)" to the end (for example, it will back up VM01.vmdk and VM01(1).vmdk).
Because of this restores via Backup Exec or VMWare Converter do not work. Both files are given the same name of the seperate datastores and this is why restores are failing.
What can I do to get around this problem? Is there an option within Backup Exec to not rename files?
Any help would be great.
Thanks in advance.
Ahh I am glad you said that - I am not sure if you will have the same issue if you redirect to a datastore
If you restore to a local drive because we do not know where the VM will end up almost certainly all we do is recreate the VMX file as it was during the backup (so containing the old datastore GUID and the original VMDK name. )
If however you redirect into a datastore it is possible we do correct the VMX content especially as the way a restore works is create an empty VM with the same number of vmdk files and same sizes (CPU, RAM etc) , snapshot the empty VM, restore the backed up VMDKs into the snapshot, merge the snapshots into the VM. It therefore may work for a true redirect into VMware and manually editing the VMX files for the redirection method you chose is probably expected.
C.