VMWARE virtual full aren't supported, but you can avoid doing new full, by simply doing copy jobs.
On Sunday, 3 May 2026 at 08:47:59 UTC+2 Oleg Volkov wrote: > I've successfully restored only FULL vmdks. A FULL+DIFF/INC cause > filesystem corruption error, sometime after hours of restored server work. > I am not talking about Virtual at all. > Also, my restores were done on previous bareos versions. > > On Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 6:58:03 PM UTC+3 John Bonnell wrote: > >> HI All, >> >> Im new to Bareos , but i want to backup around 30TB of Data from VMware >> >> Does Bareos VMware Plugin support restore from VirtualFull jobs? >> >> In our test: >> - Real Full restore works. >> - Incremental chain restore works when based on a real Full. >> - VirtualFull creates successfully. >> - VirtualFull restore fails with KeyError on the VMDK object. >> - Catalog restoreobject rows exist for the real Full and Incremental >> jobs, but not for the VirtualFull job. >> >> Is VirtualFull expected to copy plugin restoreobject rows for VMware >> jobs, or is VMware VirtualFull unsupported? >> >> i dont really want to be doing full backups every month if i can help it >> >> >> Thanks >> > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/1fdab780-9677-4190-825d-9ca00e3655e1n%40googlegroups.com.
