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orgilplus
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

Accidentally restored the snapshot how to restore original state?

I am using esxi 6.7 and I had accidentally restored the snapshot.

How can I restore to original state?

I didn't touch vmdk, vswp, vmem any files. I found MyVm-000002.vmdk with date modified today file. Is this original state? If so how can I merge it?

Please help me guys. 

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continuum
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Immortal

Your post is way too vague !
We need to see a complete filelisting and the latest vmware.logs.

If you find out that you accidentaly overwrote for example name-000001.vmdk and name-000001-sesparse.vmdk with the "restore snapshot operation" you MUST immediatly stop all activity on the datastore and create a 3GB vmfs-header dump ASAP.
See my instructions:
https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Documents/Create-a-VMFS-Header-dump-using-an-ESXi-H...

Ulli


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Do you need support with a VMFS recovery problem ? - send a message via skype "sanbarrow"
I do not support Workstation 16 at this time ...

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orgilplus
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

Complete file listing, 

Log files I attached you.

I'm really nervous about this sorry for vague  

 

 

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scott28tt
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

When you say "restored the snapshot" do you mean you reverted your VM to a snapshot and that you don't have another snapshot taken just before you did that?

 


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orgilplus
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Enthusiast

Yes I have just one snapshot, accidentally I restored it. But I didn't want snapshot version, I had been created many configs, codings on original version.  

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continuum
Immortal
Immortal

Do you have a second - unaffected datastore to create a Linux helper VM ?
If you answer NO - get one !
Add a SATA disk and create a temporary datastore or use  a NFS-datastore.
Download ufs explorer LiveCD and upload it to the second datastore.
Install Teamviewer, WinSCP and Putty on your admin host and call me via skype.
I am in germany and will be available until 23:00 Berlin time.
Did you create the VMFS headerdump I asked for ?

Ulli


________________________________________________
Do you need support with a VMFS recovery problem ? - send a message via skype "sanbarrow"
I do not support Workstation 16 at this time ...

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