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mari's avatar
mari
Level 4
13 years ago

Insufficient disk space when performing Granular restore.

Hi, I'm trying to perform a GRT restore of a single file from a virtual machine disk. When I attempt the restore it appears that BUE is restoring the entire virtual disk to C:\temp and eventually f...
2010
Agent for VMware Virtual Infrastructure
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Granular Restore Option
Restore
Troubleshooting
Virtualization
VMware
Windows
  • teiva-boy's avatar
    teiva-boy
    13 years ago

    If you do Backup to disk and duplicate to tape, problem solved, two fold!

    1.  Backups are faster to disk.

    2.  Restores are faster from disk.  

    2.5, If the restore is from disk, you don't have to stage any data in the case of a GRT restore.

Carlos_Quiroga's avatar
Carlos_Quiroga
Level 5
13 years ago

Dear Sir:

 

In GRT restore operations from tape, BE must first mount the complete resource and then extract the particular items that you need to restore.

The BE options allow you to set the "staging" location for the restore.