With Text Console Interface

The VMware Single Item Restore plugin provides a simple console program that provides access to files inside VMs.

bacula@storage# /opt/bacula/bin/mount-vmware
Automatically Selected Catalog: MyCatalog

Client list:
1: 127.0.0.1-fd
2: win2008-fd
3: rhel7-fd
Select a Client: 1
Selected Client: 127.0.0.1-fd

Job list:
1: NightlySave.2015-09-01_10.49.18_39
2: pluginTest.2015-09-01_10.40.20_04
3: pluginTest.2015-09-01_10.46.19_08
Select a Job: 2
Selected pluginTest.2015-09-01_10.40.20_04

Virtual Machine:
1: squeeze2 (5)
2: win2008 (6)
3: rhel7 (7)
Select a Virtual Machine: 1
Selected squeeze2 (5)

Actions list:
1: Mount guest filesystem locally
2: Export guest filesystem through SMB
3: Cleanup
Select a Actions: 1
Selected Mount guest filesystem locally

I: Files are available under /opt/bacula/working/vmware/5
I: Press enter to finish and cleanup the session

In this step, the virtual machine filesystem is mounted locally (in the example above, files are available under /opt/bacula/working/vmware/5. It is possible to browse directories and copy files (with cp, scp, ftp) as with a standard filesystem from another terminal session with the Unix “root” and “bacula” accounts. If you need to use another Unix account to operate on files, use the “-o allow_other” option when starting the mount-vmware script.

bacula@storage# ls /opt/bacula/working/vmware/5
bin   dev  home        lib         media  opt   root  selinux  sys  usr  vmlinuz
boot  etc  initrd.img  lost+found  mnt    proc  sbin  srv      tmp  var

To clean up the session, just press “Enter” in the terminal session where the mount-vmware script was started.

It is possible to limit the Job list with the following command line options:

-s=<days> Limit the job list to the last days
-l=<number> Limit the job list to the last number entries
-f=<filter> Specify an advanced filter based on the Job name, the FileSet name or the JobId

# Limit the job output to the last 100 jobs
bacula@storage# /opt/bacula/bin/mount-vmware -l 100

# Limit the job output to the last 30 days
bacula@storage# /opt/bacula/bin/mount-vmware -s 30

# Limit the job output to jobs that start with ``MyVMware''
bacula@storage# /opt/bacula/bin/mount-vmware -f 'jobname=MyVMware*'

# BAD USAGE for the filter option, it will search for a job named ``MyVMware''
bacula@storage# /opt/bacula/bin/mount-vmware -f 'jobname=MyVMware'

# Limit the job output to jobs that start with ``MyVMware''
# and that use the FileSet Test1
bacula@storage# /opt/bacula/bin/mount-vmware -f 'jobname=MyVMware* fileset=Test1'

# Limit the job to the jobid XX
bacula@storage# /opt/bacula/bin/mount-vmware -f jobid=XX

On some cases, the device detection doesn’t work properly. It is possible to use the -m option to mount recognized disks in a simple way. The option is automatically set when only one disk is selected during the restore.

bacula@storage# /opt/bacula/bin/mount-vmware -m