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AustinPowers
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Need help w/vcbRestore

I'm trying to restore a test VM and having trouble.

The VM was backed up fullvm to a Windows proxy server with vcbMounter. Then the VM was deleted from disk in VI3 to simulate a DR scenario.

We used WinSCP to copy the files back to the vmfs, in the same folder they were originally in.

Now we're trying to use vcbRestore to return the files to a bootable state. Only it is erroring out and I'm not sure why.

contents of catalog file include the lines

. config.vmx= "[SANVOL1 (1) TestMachine/TestMachine.vmx"[/i]

. folderpath= "/Hosts & Clusters/Bartlett/vm"[/i]

command I'm using is

. vcbRestore -h 10.18.4.101 -u user -p pw -s "/vmfs/volumes/SANVOL1 (1)/TestMachine" -L 6[/i]

error message includes

. Error: Containing folder "/Hosts & Clusters/Bartlett/vm" for VM not found.[/i]

We're confident that the actual folder and file path is correct for the files in question; I don't understand where I need to reference the "Hosts & Clusters/Bartlett/vm" path in the restore command, or how I otherwise get past this error.

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bister
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You could try using VMware Converter 3 to restore that VM.... or wait for the next release of VCB to support restore.

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