<p dir="ltr">VM were not on backup. Local snapshots were on disk. Supposed to be demo and testbed stuff but apparently not all was disposable.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 5, 2014 2:51 PM, "Beddingfield, Allen" <<a href="mailto:allen@ua.edu">allen@ua.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">What type of backups do you have? Whole VM backups or file level? I assume they were on a datastore on local disk?<br>
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<b>Subject</b>: [ale] File recovery <br>
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<p dir="ltr">Haven't had to do this in a while so I'm looking for ideas.</p>
<p dir="ltr">VMware ESX host rebooted. The bios was set to pxeboot. The pxeboot process it picked up installed Fedora19 over the ESX.</p>
<p dir="ltr">sigh</p>
<p dir="ltr">Looking for recommendations for tool chains for VM recovery. I'm not expecting much success but trying to balance reconstruct time vs recovery time.</p>
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