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    <title>topic Re: How to backup / restore individual app stacks ?? in App Volumes</title>
    <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/App-Volumes/How-to-backup-restore-individual-app-stacks/m-p/511447#M2091</link>
    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Alot of storage vendors allow you take snapshots of the lun and clone it to another one. Thats what I've down, but I also download all the appstacks and put them on a external file server just incase, you lose the thin provisioned state though if you do that. Its mainly for a secondary backup, cloning to a new datsatore has worked for me.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:45:58 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>sjesse</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2019-09-19T16:45:58Z</dc:date>
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      <title>How to backup / restore individual app stacks ??</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/App-Volumes/How-to-backup-restore-individual-app-stacks/m-p/511446#M2090</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Just curious how everyone is backing up / restoring Individual app stacks ?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Does one just restore the vmdk and vmdk.metadata to its original location ?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;We of course have backups on our SAN.. but this is at the LUN / NFS Share level . No granularity.. It's bring it all back or nothing .&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Would the easiest way be just to :&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;1) Make a Storage Group in the manager .&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;2) Mark the Destination Datastore as Not Attachable .. ( ie its the 'live backup ) .&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;3) Then i should have an exact replica of my app stacks on a different LUN ?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If i needed to restore an Individual App Stack i just copy over the corresponding VMDK and VMDK.Metadata from the backup to the source LUN ?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Just curious how everyone was doing Granular restores / backups..etc. of their app stacks. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;There's Tons of hours of time on these . Would hate to lose them .&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;thanks .&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:39:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Douglas42Adams</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-09-19T16:39:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How to backup / restore individual app stacks ??</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/App-Volumes/How-to-backup-restore-individual-app-stacks/m-p/511447#M2091</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Alot of storage vendors allow you take snapshots of the lun and clone it to another one. Thats what I've down, but I also download all the appstacks and put them on a external file server just incase, you lose the thin provisioned state though if you do that. Its mainly for a secondary backup, cloning to a new datsatore has worked for me.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:45:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/App-Volumes/How-to-backup-restore-individual-app-stacks/m-p/511447#M2091</guid>
      <dc:creator>sjesse</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-09-19T16:45:58Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How to backup / restore individual app stacks ??</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/App-Volumes/How-to-backup-restore-individual-app-stacks/m-p/511448#M2092</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks &lt;B&gt;sjesse&lt;/B&gt;​ .&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2019 21:38:51 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/App-Volumes/How-to-backup-restore-individual-app-stacks/m-p/511448#M2092</guid>
      <dc:creator>Douglas42Adams</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-09-19T21:38:51Z</dc:date>
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