Restore Without the vSphere Plugin

If you try to restore to a File Daemon where the Bacula Enterprise vSphere Plugin is not installed, you will have to convert the bvmdk files to raw files using the vddk tool in command line:

% vddk -C -i 0.bvmdk -o 0.raw

The bvmdk format is used internally by the vSphere Plugin to ensure data integrity and handle Changed Block Tracking (CBT) sparse information efficiently. It may happen that Bacula reports a false error during the restore about the file size.

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• Restore to New VMware Guest

• Restore to Existing VMware Guest

• Restore to Local Disk with vSphere Plugin

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