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VMware Data Recovery 2.0 – the upgrade process from earlier version

Vladan SEGET — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:43:51 +0000

How to upgrade from VDR 1.2? The new VMware Data Recovery 2.0 (VDR) has been released together with the release of vSphere 5 – VMware vSphere 5 available for download – and since there is quite a few upgrades planned ahead, it might be handy to have it written/bookmarked on my website as well. The upgrade process […]

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Troubleshooting tool for VDR

Vladan SEGET — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 10:00:17 +0000

A Mindmap for VMware Data Recovery This PDF Flash Clickable utility can drive you to solve your issue faster. What it does. Once downloaded, inside of the PDF there is an embedded flash object, which is clickable. By selecting and clicking the area of where you're having issues, you'll get further and KB articles with […]

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If you’re trying to use Windows CIFS with VDR

Vladan SEGET — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:40:59 +0000

Error when trying to use CIFS share as a destination for backup. If you're trying to setup Windows CIFS as a destination deduplication store for your VMware VDR (VMware Data Recovery) appliance, you might run into an error. It's an error which you can see at the console of the VDR appliance: Status code returned […]

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5 hours in average to recover a VM

Vladan SEGET — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:19:48 +0000

VMware Data Protection – the annual report by Vanson Bourne. The report is written by Vanson Bourne. It's an independent market research organization. The survey was conducted in August 2010 and about 500 CIOs from organizations from US, UK, France and Germany did participated. The report contains 19 pages. The report in pDF format can […]

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Using VMware Data Recovery without vCenter?

Vladan SEGET — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:20:37 +0000

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 […]

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

Vladan SEGET — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 06:52:25 +0000

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. […]

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How-to update VDR to 1.2

Vladan SEGET — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:46:30 +0000

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 […]

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End of VCB – VMware Consolidated Backup

Vladan SEGET — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:51:33 +0000

In the upcoming release of vSphere there will be no more VCB. As some bloggers already announced, VCB backup will be phased out and replaced by VDR. At the moment when you download vSphere, you still have a choice between VCB and VDR. So in vSphere 4.1 (if this is the future release number… 8-)), […]

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Do you want to see a little magic?

Vladan SEGET — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:33:21 +0000

VDR – VMware Data Recovery – Verbose Logs where to find that? I was just reading the VDR Admin guide once more. In details and I found some information that I have overlooked the last time I was reading the pdf guide. Usually when you want to see VDR logs you go and connect to […]

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VDR backup fail error

Vladan SEGET — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:53:12 +0000

VMware Data Recovery error – Trouble writing files, error -1020 (Sharing violation) Sometimes you came out in a trouble when your VDR backup does report an error. Trouble writing files, error -1020 (Sharing violation) And when you manually trigger the backup it fails with the following error: The destination is not available for a backup […]

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