The Development VMware ESX server at my company is an IBM 366 with a SCSI attached EXP400 external disk pack. This system arrived in the UK from a company site on the west coast of the US via a stop at the company HQ on the east coast of the US. To say that the hardware had been shunted from pillar to post would be a minor understatement.
We are using Vizioncore vRanger to back up the VMs on both this Development box and the Production VMware ESX server.
Just recently, the RAID 5 array on the EXP400 dropped 6 disks(out of 9)! Why it did this is a different story. Here I'll recount how we recovered from this.
There were a couple of VMs we had to get back online quickly. No problem, we had vRanger backing them up.
Ah! Now, well there was a problem. The backups were very successful, but for some reason we're still investigating, vRanger refused point blank to recover to the Production system.
However, we had access to the backup via the Windows OS. A quick google discovered this thread on the Vizioncore support site.
Restoring a VMWare machine from the '.tvzc' files of vRanger :
1.) Download FileZipper : http://www.vizioncore.com/Downloads/ProductSupport/vcbrestore.zip
2.) Download BSDTar: http://www.vizioncore.com/Downloads/ProductSupport/bsdtar.zip
3.) Install BSDTar (the zipfile contains an installable .exe)
4.) Extract the desired files :
FileZipper.exe -D -I "filename.tvzc" -O - | "c:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\bsdtar.exe" xzvf -
5.) Ensure file permissions are correct - I have cygwin installed on my PC, which can be invaluable!
6.) remove the .vzsnp extension from the end of files.
7) Within Virtual Center Server:
8.) Start up the VM.
Bob's your parental sibling, of the usually male variety.
We are using Vizioncore vRanger to back up the VMs on both this Development box and the Production VMware ESX server.
Just recently, the RAID 5 array on the EXP400 dropped 6 disks(out of 9)! Why it did this is a different story. Here I'll recount how we recovered from this.
There were a couple of VMs we had to get back online quickly. No problem, we had vRanger backing them up.
Ah! Now, well there was a problem. The backups were very successful, but for some reason we're still investigating, vRanger refused point blank to recover to the Production system.
However, we had access to the backup via the Windows OS. A quick google discovered this thread on the Vizioncore support site.
Restoring a VMWare machine from the '.tvzc' files of vRanger :
1.) Download FileZipper : http://www.vizioncore.com/Downloads/ProductSupport/vcbrestore.zip
2.) Download BSDTar: http://www.vizioncore.com/Downloads/ProductSupport/bsdtar.zip
3.) Install BSDTar (the zipfile contains an installable .exe)
4.) Extract the desired files :
FileZipper.exe -D -I "filename
5.) Ensure file permissions are correct - I have cygwin installed on my PC, which can be invaluable!
6.) remove the .vzsnp extension from the end of files.
7) Within Virtual Center Server:
use Browse datastore on the Production Server's storage Upload the restored files to the Production ESX server select the .vmf file and Add to Inventory
Bob's your parental sibling, of the usually male variety.
3 comments:
Nice tutorial. It was of incredible value for me this weekend. I also helped me with the parts not covered in the initial forum. By the way love the name
@Trey, I'm glad it helped.
@everyone else, it looks like Vizioncore have re-arranged their site. The links in this blog now fail. I'm looking at adding links to other copies of these zip files if I can find some.
Wonderful blog. thanks for sharing good information. really good work. big thanks.. :)
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