Just wanted to point out that if you flash your Iomega PX6 or PX4 with the latest firmware, 3.1.14.995, it will actually enable you to do Mac OS X (Lion / 10.7) Time Machine backups and restores again… I discovered it by accident as somehow Iomega did not list it in the release note and they did not update the [...]
I was reading Eric Siebert’s excellent article on Changed Block Tracking(CBT) and the article on Punching Cloud on this new feature which is part of vSphere. CBT enables incremental backups of full VMDKs. Something that isn’t covered is what the “block” part of Changed Block Tracking actually stands for. Someone asked me on the VMTN Communities and it’s something I [...]
I received an email from one of my readers, Kevin, about using the VSS Driver for Backups. As of 3.5 Update 2 this feature has been introduced. I knew that there was a catch to using the VSS Driver but it seems that many people have overlooked a little detail on page 50 of the documentation of which Kevin was [...]
William Lam just updated two of his most popular scripts. If you haven’t looked at them yet, make sure you do as they are worth it. ghettoVCB(g2) enables the backup of virtual machines residing on either an ESX or ESXi host. ghettoVCBg2 is a complete rewritten and enhanced version of ghettoVCB or as William puts it “harder, better, faster, stronger”. [...]
VMware just released a brand new version of VMware Data Recovery. Version 1.0.2 Build Number 188925 Release Date 2009/09/09 This releases fixes a couple of known issues: Various Integrity Check Issues Under certain circumstances, integrity checks reported damaged restore points and cannot load session errors. For example, such problems might be reported if: A combination of simultaneous overlapping backups and [...]
Although the VMware download section has not been updated VMware Data Recovery 1.0.1 has been officially released. Click on VMware Data Recovery 1.0 in the download section and you will be presented with the following: Latest Released Version: 1.0.1 | 07/09/09 | 176771 You can find the release notes here. I want to highlight the following resolved issue as it [...]
During VMworld I quickly wrote down the steps that VMware vCenter Data Recovery takes when backing up VMs. I added one step which isn’t unimportant, changed block tracking(4): Create a snapshot of disk(s) Hot add disk(s) to Data Recovery appliance Create hashes of (hopefully variable) blocks Read data of changed blocks if previous backup exists Dedupe(using variable chunk sizes) and [...]
