On Mar 18, 2010, at 15:00, Miles Nordin wrote:
Admittedly the second bullet is hard to manage while still backing up zvol's, pNFS / Lustre data-node datasets, windows ACL's, properties,
Some commercial backup products are able to parse VMware's VMDK files to get file system information of them. The product sits on the VMware host, slurps in the files (which can be snapshotted for quiesced backups), and if you want to restore, you can either put back the entire VMDK or simply restore just the particular file(s) that are of interest.
Currently NetBackup only supports "parsing" NTFS for individual file restoration.
Theoretically, zvols could be added to the list of parsable container formats.
Though there would probably have to be some kind of API akin to VMware's VCB or vStorage.
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