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Thank you for the response.

However, I've already looked at many of those, and maybe my eyes are missing the fine points but I don't see them offering explicitly what I want. I am not looking to back-up an entire Vm. I am not looking to back up a guest OS with the assumption the guest OS is live and will be cooperating. I need a tool that's granular enough to restore a guest OS without worrying about attached storage nor care if the guest OS is functional.

If I may vent for a second the majority of data centers I've worked in (several dozen over the past decade) do not have explicit OS back-ups and the REAL recovery plan is to pull out a Windows recovery CD, or blindly rely on a cluster fail over. This is the second data center I've been in less than 6months where the resident VMware engineers *do not* have functioning guest back-ups once the snap-shot process fails, which it does once the guest VM and attached storage grows large. So, they assume Windows guest OS's will never break, service pack downloads will never throw the guest OS into an infinite upgrade loop, registries will never get corrupted, etc. Vent = off :slightly_smiling_face:

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