With BWeb Management Suite Interface

The VMware Single Item Restore option in BWeb Management Suite is a wizard that provides easy restoration of files from a VMware guest. The integration of BWeb within the Single Item Restore is necessary following the below steps.

The first step is to select the Client where the vSphere backup job was done.

Once the Client is selected, the administrator needs to select the Job (a Restore Point) to restore.

If the selected Job is a valid vSphere job, the third step will display a list of all virtual machines included in the FileSet.

At this point, Bacula needs to build a virtual image of the selected virtual machine. A couple of small files need to be restored from each Job that makes up the selected Restore Point. Once done, Bacula needs to mount the disk of the selected virtual machine on the system. These steps are usually quite fast, but the time depends a lot on the configuration used. Indexes are created and kept during this phase to speed up any further restore requests.

Available with Bacula Enterprise 8.6

To create the index during the backup phase, the FileSet plugin option index can be used.

Plugin = "vsphere: host=myhost index"

Once mounted, the selected virtual machine files will be displayed in a file browser where it is possible to select files or directories to restore (figure below). The administrator can then choose to generate a ZIP or a TAR archive. The archive will be generated automatically and will be stored in /opt/bacula/working. A secure HTTP download link will be generated, and the administrator can provide this link to the end user.

If BWeb Management Suite is configured to use HTTP Authentication, it is necessary to configure lighttpd properly to allow “anonymous” users to download their files. (See HTTP Server Extra Configuration)

For each selection, the administrator can choose how to retrieve the files directly, compressed as a tar file or a zip file.

Once the restore has taken place it is important to terminate the