vSphere Data Protection - File Level Restore

[IMMIAnt]

I am hoping that someone can help me or point me in the right direction.

I have installed vDP 5.1.10.32 and am using it to backup my vSphere 5.1 Update environment.  I have approx 40 VMs with about 30 of the VMS running Windows Server 2008 R2 and 10 of those VMs running Redhat Linux 5.7.  When I have tested the recovery of my VMs, I can recover a full Windows VM and I can perform file level restores of indiviual files for the Windows VMs.  I can also do a full recovery of the Linux VMs, but when I try to do a file level restore on the Linux VMs I am not able to see the file systems.

When I login in to the vDP from the Linux VM from a Firefox browser, I get the option to mount the image, but after a small period of time the mount completes but there are not directories/files for me to view.

I am wondering if anyone else has had this experience and if so what did you do to resolve the problem.

Cheers

IMMIAnt

[snekkalapudi]

Did you checked whether the file system you have on your linux VM is supported for FLR mount. Admin guide have some details about it.

[IMMIAnt]

I had the linux admin check that and he confirmed that the file system in the linux VM is using LVM with ext3 which is supported according to the Admin guide.