How to backup / restore individual app stacks ??

[Douglas42Adams]

Just curious how everyone is backing up / restoring Individual app stacks ?

Does one just restore the vmdk and vmdk.metadata to its original location ?

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 .

Would the easiest way be just to :

1) Make a Storage Group in the manager .

2) Mark the Destination Datastore as Not Attachable .. ( ie its the 'live backup ) .

3) Then i should have an exact replica of my app stacks on a different LUN ?

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 ?

Just curious how everyone was doing Granular restores / backups..etc. of their app stacks.

There's Tons of hours of time on these . Would hate to lose them .

thanks .

[sjesse · Accepted solution]

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.

[Douglas42Adams]

Thanks sjesse​ .