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Using VMware Data Recovery without vCenter?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

Using VDR without vCenter, in which situations? I wonder why would someone would want to use VMware Data Recovery (VDR) without vCenter. Yes there might be a case for that. In case you’re running vCenter as a Virtual Machine (which is good practice) and this VM is being protected by High Availability (HA). Then if […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Best practices VDR, VDR, VMware Data Recovery

VDR appliance not mounting automatically the backup destination after reboot

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VDR not mounting automatically a deduplication store. I was having issues with not mounting automatically the backup destination after rebooting the VDR appliance since some time now. This was happening in my environment since I upgraded to the VDR 1.2. This is something that I was aware of and I usually mount the destination deduplication […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: deduplication store not mounted automatically, not mounting automatically after reboot, VMware Data Recovery

VDR – how to get a log bundle before you call the support

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VDR – VMware Data Recovery While listening this year’s VMworld Session on VDR – VMware Data Recovery  – while on many of the information I already knew and was aware of, because I install and use VDR quite often. There was an information about how to collect the diagnostic logs, in case anything gets wrong. […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VDR, Vmware Backup solution, VMware Data Recovery, vSphere Essentials Plus

Use converter 4.0.1 on vSphere 4.1 for restore backups with VCB

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

If you’re VMware customer and you’re using VCB for restoring backups read on… VMware has extended it’s support to VCB in vSphere 4.1, but if you want to restore the backup images, you must use VMware vCenter Converter. Watch out, these images requires the use of VMware vCenter Converter. If you have done your migration […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VCB support in vSphere 4.1, VMware Consolidated Backup in vSphere 4.1, VMware vSphere 4.1 and VCB

Backing up vCenter 4.X Server

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

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What to backup on your vCenter Server? A KB from VMware has pointed out what should be backed up on your vCenter. There are 2 major things to be considered for backup. Your vCenter database and certificates. Without those 2 elements you can’t login to your vCenter. VUM (update manager) is another element considering to […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: backup vCenter, vCeneter physical server backup, VM vCenter backup, vSphere 4 backup vCenter

Backup and recovery Advanced Server from Acronis integrates into vCenter

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

vCenter Integration with Acronis Backup and recovery Advanced Server. In one of my previous videos I showed you the utilization of Acronis for Exchange. This backup solution is suitable for backing up and restoring e-mail servers running Microsoft Exchange. And the restore individual e-mail feature of this solution is just great. The e-mail backup/recovery solution […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Acronis Server Backup, Image Server Backup

Acronis Disk Director Home 11 review

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 11, 2010

Acronis Disk Director 11 for home users. I recently helped a friend of mine to recover his PC. What happened with his computer was, that he erased by error a data partition on his system running XP.  Since I knew that at Acronis they have a tools for recovering lost partitions, I used the latest […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Acronis Disk Director 11 Home, Home partitionning software, Partitionning Software Acronis

Troubleshoot virtual machine VSS snapshot

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 16, 2017

VSS providers conflicts. In case you’re using Symantec BackupExec 2010 as a backup solution for your Virtual Infrastructure running Vmware vSphere 4, you might be founding yourself in curious situations when your backup jobs might finish right (but sometimes not). By digging deep inside of log files together with Symantec support, we found an issue […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Problems VSS snapshots, Vmware vSphere backup Symantec 2010, VSS issue Symantec, VSS snapshots conflicts

Integrity check with details in VDR 1.2

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 30, 2011

Detailed Informations about Integrity scan. This is a quick follow up post after explaining how to initiate a manual integrity check in VMware Data Recovery – backup solution provided with vSphere Essentials Plus package. In my last article I showed you that sometimes you have to initiate the manual integrity check to correct an error […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Deduplication store for VDR, VDR 1.2, VDR backup appliance, VMware Data Recovery

How-to update VDR to 1.2

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

How to update VDR without loosing all restore points and configuration. With the update of VDR – VMware Data recovery the question is how to proceed to an update to the latest version without loosing the configuration settings, backup jobs and the deduplication stores. In my lab I tested the step by step solution provided […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VDR, VMware Backup with VDR, VMware Data Recovery

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