We are using VCB (VMware Consolidated Backup) with Backup Exec for file-level backups of our virtual machines. Let us say that virtual machine MACHINE1 has 😧 drive which looks like:
D:\DATA\1.DAT
D:\LOG\1.LOG
D:\FILE.TXT
As a result of pre-backup script, the following directory structure is created on local VCB proxy drive:
C:\MNT\
in this example
C:\MNT\MACHINE1\letters\D\
containing all files and folders on the 😧 drive of virtual machine, looking like:
C:\MNT\MACHINE1\letters\D\DATA\1.DAT
C:\MNT\MACHINE1\letters\D\LOG\1.LOG
C:\MNT\MACHINE1\letters\D\FILE.TXT
We are able to successfully backup the contents of this folder.
But when we try to restore to another machine's 😧 drive, Backup Exec re-creates "C:\MNT\MACHINE1\letters\D" stuff, which is not desired. We want to restore directly to 😧 drive:
How can we get rid of extra path levels in this case?
When we uncheck "Preserve tree" flag for restore job, extra path levels do not appear, but the whole underlying directory structure is lost, so it's not an option.
