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Failed to get disks while trying to restore single files on Linux

Hi,

I'm trying to restore single files from VDP backup of linux machines (vSphere Data Protection Linux File Level Restore - VMware vSphere Blog).

Everything is at the most recent release. When I try to mount the backup in the flash client (https://VDP_APPLIANCE:8543/flr) I get this error:

Failed to get disks: Failed to determine the partition type. Verify that all the disks on the VM have valid/supported partitions 

I tried with nodes with various disk structures, but the error is always the same:

NAME   FSTYPE LABEL UUID                                 MOUNTPOINT

sda

├─sda1 ext4         749c6053-e217-4446-a753-bcfdc426df8c /

├─sda2 swap         b82985f9-e84f-41f3-8a29-9424bc14d513 [SWAP]

└─sda3 ext4         c0d3298e-e1bc-4e67-beef-c18176965959 /tmp

sr0

NAME             FSTYPE      LABEL        UUID                                   MOUNTPOINT

sda

└─sda1           xfs                      8b6d50d8-cfb8-4020-bfe8-3be977eba7c9   /boot

sdb

└─sdb1           LVM2_member              DohVGH-Nz0v-6LQq-Kjn7-VDRJ-yGfh-9jv7LP

  ├─vglocal-root xfs                      c5999e7e-4711-4fbb-a166-0fe81594233f   /

  └─vglocal-swap swap                     10ad0584-2a34-4cce-9007-11dece9c1c84   [SWAP]

sr0

NAME            FSTYPE      LABEL UUID                                   MOUNTPOINT

fd0

sda

├─sda1          xfs               5e350928-01d7-43b9-b325-ecad28742610   /boot

└─sda2          LVM2_member       3jZTd6-ic0Z-u8vZ-s7Qq-ZRa5-kvBg-Kimgfq

  ├─centos-root xfs               6c10a246-9514-4491-a7fd-a74861638507   /

  └─centos-swap swap              fb55c267-2440-4b4d-9671-de8d295cf121   [SWAP]

sr0

VDP manual says that at least ext4 (first try) should be supported. By the way, is it possible that XFS (the default RedHat filesystem) is not supported at all?

Thank you very much!

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I understood that is not possible:

     Limitations of vSphere Data Protection File Level Restore

It seems that File Level Restore is actually a Windows-only feature, not supporting even ext4 nor any disk with more than one partition.

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I understood that is not possible:

     Limitations of vSphere Data Protection File Level Restore

It seems that File Level Restore is actually a Windows-only feature, not supporting even ext4 nor any disk with more than one partition.

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Hi, you can try VMcom Backup Appliance (https://vmcom.com) instead of VDP for linux file-level restores.

It supports both xfs and ext4 and also multiple partitions on a single vdisk. At this point, it does not support LVM though. (LVM support will be added in near future.)

Cheers, Pavel

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Hi,

External proxies are required for the Linux logical volume manager (LVM) and EXT4 file level restore. Deployment of external proxies is performed using the vSphere Data Protection configure user interface (UI).

https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/vsphere/vmware-vsphere-data-protec...

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