VM Backup using Avamar and doing File level restores

Thanks for the information as it was very helpful!!!!

FLR for Linux VMs is supported but has some very specific requirements and limitations. These are documented on page 77 of the Avamar 6.1 for VMware Guide. Here are some excerpts with the limitations that are generally most relevant to customers:

VMware Tools must be installed on the target virtual machine. For best results, ensure that all virtual machines are running the latest available version of VMware Tools. Older versions are known to cause failures when browsing during the file-level restore operation. The following virtual disk configurations are not supported: • Unformatted disks • Dynamic disks • GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks • Ext4 filesystems • FAT16 filesystems • FAT32 filesystems • Extended partitions • Virtual disk with more than one partition • Two or more virtual disks mapped to single partition • Encrypted partitions • Compressed partitions The following limitations apply to logical volumes managed by Logical Volume Manager (LVM): • One physical volume (.vmdk) must be mapped to exactly one logical volume • Only ext2 and ext3 formatting is supported

My pleasure! Happy to help.

I too, cannot do FLR on any of my Unix servers, so none of my are supported.

So I have set my unix vm's to backup once a week with a 3 week retention.

and backup the server as a client based backup every night.

this then allows me to re-make the vm if needed from a vm backup, and/or restore only parts from the client backup.

The issues has been corrected. What I did was to reboot the Proxy servers. This allows me to do one backup and have the ability to do image and File level restores.

Ralph