VMWare Agent VMDK Selection

[dominikD]

In the past, we made our image level backups with vranger. Because of consolidation of backup infrastructure, we decided to backup from a single point, so we are using the vmware agent now. In vranger it was possible to select a single vmdk disk file. So it was possible to protect the system drive of a large virtual file server with an image backup, while the file shares are backuped using the windows agent. Is there a way to make image level backups of a single disk instead of backing up the whole vm? 

[ZeRoC00L · Accepted solution]

No, with the vmware agent your can browse through the tree of virtual machines, and select a complete VM to backup, not the individual VMDK.

[RahulG]

Backup Exec does not support the restore of individual Virtual Machine Disks (VMDK files). If you attempt to restore individual VMDK files, the virtual machine is created with all of the disks that were present at backup time and only the selected disk's data is restored. The selection of individual disks is recommended only for redirected restores.