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Restore a VM to multiple copies?

nbmagic
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I need to restore a vm to multiple VM’s, and then change configurations to make these VM’s to different servers.

Any ways to restore a VM's image from backups to multple VM's? Thanks!

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Michal_Mikulik1
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Hello,

yes but you must restore them in individual restore jobs, launched one after another. There is no way to create all of them with one restore job.

Regards

M.

 

Thanks!

 

I am wondering what is the technical difficulties to achieve that, in the same process to restore a vm to multiple copies?

There are use cases here if NetBackup can have this feature that would be greatly helpful.

Michal_Mikulik1
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Hello,

this is NetBackup design - it cannot restore an object into multiple copies in one restore job, regardless if it is a VMware or not.

However when the backup image on disk, it can be read by multiple verify/restore jobs, so you can issue these restore jobs quickly one after another, and these multiple restores then run almost parallelly..

When the backup is on a tape, then restore jobs must wait one for another, and thus run sequentially.

Regards

Michal