I was troubleshooting VMware Data Recovery today and found an interesting article in the VMware KB for enabling verbose logging for Data Recovery through the GUI instead of by modifying the datarecovery.ini: To view Verbose Data Recovery logs: In the vSphere Client, select Home > Solutions and Applications > VMware Data Recovery. Enter the virtual machine name or IP address of the backup [...]

I was asked why Data Recovery was only running one single job at a time instead of multiple concurrent. After some investigations I found out that the administrator changed the configured memory for the appliance to 8Gb where 2Gb is the default. The Knowledge base article clearly states the following about this: This issue may occur if the configuration of [...]

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 [...]