Recovering Virtual Machines Manually; Recovery After Restoring Outside Of A Datacenter - HP Data Protector A.06.11 Integration Manual

MachineB.company.com. The virtual machines were backed up from the datacenter
/MyDatacenter that was managed by the VirtualCenter Server system
VirtualCenter.company.com. You want to restore from the last backup session.
Run:
omnir -vmware -barhost VirtualCenter.company.com –instance
/MyDatacenter –method VCBfile -vmfolder /MyVirtualMachines
–exclude /MyVirtualMachines/MachineA –target
computer1.company.com –vm /MyVirtualMachines2/MachineB –target
MachineB.company.com –file "C/Documents and Settings" –file
C/Test/Schedule.txt

Recovering virtual machines manually

There are two different scenarios when you need to manually recover virtual machines
after they have been restored with Data Protector:
• If you have restored the virtual machine files to a directory on a Data Protector
client due to one of the following reasons:
• You selected None (restore files to client) in the Application database restore
option.
• You selected a datacenter in the Application database restore option but the
connection with the target ESX Server or ESXi Server system could not be
established.
See "Recovery after restoring outside of a
• If you have restored the virtual machine files to the original ESX Server and/or
ESXi Server systems by selecting a datacenter in the Application database restore
option, however, without selecting the restore option Register virtual machines if
needed (see

Recovery after restoring outside of a datacenter

Suppose the virtual machine FreeBSD 8.0 beta2 i386 was backed up in the
VCBimage backup session 2009/07/07-2 and you have restored the virtual machine
to the directory C:\tmp on the VCB proxy system droid.company.com.
To manually move the restored virtual machine image to the ESXi Server system
srsen.company.com managed by the VirtualCenter Server system
volk.company.com, using the VMware Converter:
92 Integrating VMware Virtual Infrastructure and Data Protector
"Recovery after restoring to a
datacenter" on page 92.
datacenter" on page 100).