Here is the second thing I love about NetBackup for VMWare. It's a a little more complicated than part one so hang in there.
This quote comes from an internal forum at Symantec where people can ask questions about our technologies. I saw it and immediately knew I wanted to share it.
If you don't know who George is he wrote the whitepaper on NetBackup VMWare Best Practices.
Here is what he said.
"Competitors can all backup at the VMDK level. We do this as well.
Where we have a significant advantage is at restore time. Anybody can restore a single file from a VMDK backup. The question is what is the exact process for restore?
Because we are able to find (map) and index individual files at backup time, we can restore files directly from a VMDK file WITHOUT having to first restore the vmdk file, mount the VMDK file and then look for the file to be restored. This is a significant difference between our technology and competing technologies.
So, for a competing product, this is the restore process:
- Restore the VMDK file.
- Mount the VMDK file.
- Search for file to be restore. Competitors cannot index individual files from a VMDK backup so files have to be found manually.
- If the file is not found in that particular VMDK file, repeat this process until you find the file you want to restore. Competing products don't index individual files so you have to manually search through each VMDK file. This could be a VERY long process.
This is how NetBackup for VMware performs the same restore procedure:
- From NBU restore GUI, browse for the file or files to be restored -- this search can be performed across thousands of backups.
- Click the "restore" button. No one else can provide this functionality."
-- George Winter
So there you have it, easy restore is the second thing I really like about our NetBackup for VMWare offerering.
