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VM restore from VBA on DR site DD
Hi expert,
We have set up VM backup using VBA to primary DD and clone the data to another DD. If the primary DD failed, during the vm restore, whether networker will choose the saveset on secondary DD automatically? Or whether we need to choose clone pool to do the restore?
Thank you for your reply.
rmsuarez
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August 31st, 2015 23:00
Is it necessary that the primary DD is unmounted or switch off? We try to recover from a secondary DD where we cloned the vms and it's not working. According with 8.2. SP1 vmware integration guide, it's possible to do that. They call it "resurrection":
"Restores from devices will be slow if resurrection is required. Resurrection is a type of
recovery in which the primary backup (or snapup) in the VMware Backup Appliance is no
longer available. Resurrection is not supported for VMDK-level backups, and you can only
perform resurrection when you associate a client with the policy. For Data Domain
devices, resurrection only occurs when restoring a cloned backup. For AFTD and tape
devices, resurrection requires a local Data Domain device on the NetWorker server."
We use different retentions for the primary DD (8 weeks) and the secondary (16 weeks). When the copy in the primary DD expires, and we try to make the recover from the secondary DD it doesn't work.
Regards,
Rubén.