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r_verwimp
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Undelete file from VMFS 3

Is it posible to undelete a file from vmfs3?

and yes i know it was stupide to don't have a working backup!

Please anyone????

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poulinal
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If you get an answer please let us know if the forum!!

thanks

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Would you like me to move this up to the ESX Forum where you might get a better chance of having this answered.

Most folks do not read the VMUG Areas.

I will be happy to move this for you.

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Bil-E-daKid
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Hey there - did you ever find an answer to this? I've just done the same thing...... stupid stupid stupid.

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lukas_radil
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AFAIK there is no way to undelete files from vmfs. I'm sure that here don't exist any VMware tool for undelete. I didn't found any 3rd party data recovery sw for vmfs. Sorry for bad news

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Bil-E-daKid
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Thanks for that - I kinda thought that might be the case.

As it turned out, it was only the small .vmdk file that was missing (as opposed to the large one that is the actual disk image). Knowing the size settings of the image file, I used the VI3 console to create a new blank disk of the same size and then moved my virtual disk file into the same folder (overwriting the new blank one) and, presto, it all worked fine again.

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opbz
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another option would have been to use vmkfstools -i to import the vmdk. I used this method when restoring vmdk backups

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AndreTheGiant
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There is a VMDK Recolvery Tools

It requires proactive steps to protect the VMFS datastore and is not available on ESXi nor is it supported so it does fall short.

See also:

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