We use bareos 18.2.5 with vmware plugin to backup our ESXi 6.5 setup. A few days ago we literally lost the whole DC with both vmware and the bareos client running there. Thus what I left with is a SD outside of the DC and backups of the virtual machine in question. Because there is no way to restore into the original VC I'm basically have the only solution but to restore into a file. After certain amount of failures and with the help from http://www.voleg.info/bareos-restore-vmware.html I have ended up with kind of working solution which included installation of a new client on the SD host and restore from bconsole with manually specified destination path, different restore client (the backup client remained the original one), and 'python:localvmdk=yes' plugin option. The resulting content of the destination directory have three files: one .vmdk from the full backup, and two .vmdk+I+<bunch-of-digits> from the two following incrementals.
Basically, I have two problems, unless these are two sides of a single one: 1. Nothing recognizes the .vmdk file as a valid disk image. Neither VMWare Fusion, nor VirtualBox 5, nor VirtualBox 6, nor ESXi 6.5. In the latter case I tried vmkfstools to create a fixed clone of the disk only to see a error message: "DiskLib_Check() failed for source disk The file specified is not a virtual disk (15)." 2. The two incementals actually represent two days of backups. How do I merge them into the full? I'd be happy with the full running, but it'd be very helpful if I get these two days back too. If there is a way to restore to another ESXi setup I'd like to know how could this be done because all mentions of restoring to a vCenter I googled out so far are saying that it is only possible for the same VC. Any tips are appreciated. I've already lost three days fighting the problem. It also means three days of some tasks being paused because they're dependent on the server. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/a6404f34-da48-41ef-92ac-0eb32c20292do%40googlegroups.com.
