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MustafaAogluGT's avatar
MustafaAogluGT
Level 3
5 years ago

Vmware Backups Enable File Recovery Option

Hello; I did some research but I couldn't find a clear answer. What are the disadvantages of this feature(enable file recovery ftom VM) on the master? if this is the case, I want to create two diff...
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enable file recovery
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  • iVaibhav's avatar
    iVaibhav
    5 years ago

    I dont think there is any disadvantage unless you dont want the ability to recover files from it. 

    The Catalog will have file history as usual for oher machines in addition to Snapshot Information. 

    The only advantage I can think of is Catalog will not index its files which will save Caalog space (Theoritically )

    But a Veritas Engineer will be at a better position to answer this

    Regards

RamNagalla's avatar
RamNagalla
Moderator
5 years ago

you will have more disadvantage if you create seperate policy for file recovery and for VM, as the backup data has to travel twice from source to Netbackup, it will put load on network, Netbackup master & media server and in catalog, its simply doubles the work. it is not a best practice and i highly discourage to doing it, unless you have a better justification for server to server basic.