http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/aseantrends Comment Feed for Sathish Murthy's Blog Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:18:17 GMT Clearspace 1.10.12 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-03-06T16:18:17Z http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/aseantrends/2009/01/03/vmware-esx-backups-in-seconds#comments-10987 Dear Joe,<br /> Good Day.<br /> <br /> With SMVI, you can instantaneously recover (in few seconds) any virtual machine back to production use.<br /> <br /> In case of single file recovery (Say C:\Program files\abc) inside the VMDK file, you can restore the VMDK file using SMVI to an alternate location and copy out the single file named "abc" back to the production VM. This method does not take up much time either.<br /> <br /> With SMVI you don't occupy space for each of the backups as it leverages NetApp Snapshot technology. Probably for 100GB of data, you need 20GB to keep 255 copies of backups per volume with any retention policy preferred.<br /> <br /> Hope this answers your query.<br /> <br /> Thank you <br /> Sathish Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:18:17 GMT smurthy http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/aseantrends/2009/01/03/vmware-esx-backups-in-seconds#comments-10987 2009-03-06T16:18:17Z http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/aseantrends/2009/01/03/vmware-esx-backups-in-seconds#comments-11001 Greetings,<br /> Is there a process for frestoring individual files to a VM from an SMVI backup?<br /> <br /> Thanks,<br /> Joe Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:54:33 GMT jropar http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/aseantrends/2009/01/03/vmware-esx-backups-in-seconds#comments-11001 2009-03-06T15:54:33Z