Restore to Local Disk with vSphere Plugin

Bacula Enterprise allows restoring any file (bvmdk, ovf, …) to your File Daemon’s local disks. Then, you may mount the image locally using the VMware vmware-mount tool or qemu-nbd and perform file level restores.

By using where=/path/to/dir in the restore options, the Plugin will automatically restore selected files to this location on your File Daemon’s local disk.

% qemu-img convert -O vmdk /tmp/0.bvmdk /tmp/0.vmdk

It is also possible to copy the raw image to any device or to mount it and restore files directly.

 # modprobe nbd max_part=16
 # qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 /tmp/0.bvmdk
 # partprobe /dev/nbd0
 # fdisk -l /dev/nbd0

Disk /dev/nbd0: 2147 MB, 2147483648 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 261 cylinders, total 4194304 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000a7154

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/nbd0p1   *          63     1686824      843381   83  Linux
/dev/nbd0p2         1686825     4192964     1253070    5  Extended
/dev/nbd0p5         1686888     1959929      136521   82  Linux swap
/dev/nbd0p6         1959993     4192964     1116486   83  Linux

 # mount /dev/nbd0p1 /mnt/image
 # ls /mnt/image
bin   cdrom  etc      initrd.img  lost+found  mnt    proc   sbin
tmp   var    boot     dev         home        lib    media  opt
sys   usr    vmlinuz  srv         selinux     root

 # umount /mnt/image
 # qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0