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I performed a backup of a virtual machine with the policy option "Exclude date disks" and when I restore the virtual machine is generated in various vmdk datastore?

Anderson_Santos
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Yasuhisa_Ishika
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As i wrote in this discussion, NetBackup create new VM with all vmdks as they were in original VM even if you exclude some of them from backup. Excluded disks are nit taken in backup, but they will be created without any data(empty) in recovery process.

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/restoring-single-vmdk

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Yasuhisa_Ishika
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified

As i wrote in this discussion, NetBackup create new VM with all vmdks as they were in original VM even if you exclude some of them from backup. Excluded disks are nit taken in backup, but they will be created without any data(empty) in recovery process.

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/restoring-single-vmdk