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uwish
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

vSphere Data Protection 5.1 Reinstallation after failed!

Hello everyone,

I am recently coming across something that is happening quietly frequently with my clients. Their VDP appliance is just failling out of a sudden for different reasons. Some of this clients didn´t care loosing their backsups but others want their backup back.HOW D

Te big question that I´ve been looking for an answer and cound´t find anywhere is...

HOW CAN I REINSTALL VDP APPLIANCE RETAINING THE BACKUPS???

I would be very happy if any one have a solution for this.

Thank you very much in advance all.

1 Reply
marcelo_soares
Champion
Champion

You can't reuse the dedup store on VDP. You will need to try to recover the VDM back again or discard all the backups - it does not work like VDR where you could detach/atach the dedup sotres to any appliance.

Marcelo Soares