1. Restore capabilities of VMware backups Eric Siebert vExpert, Author, Blogger Blog: http://vsphere-land.com http://searchvmware.com Twitter: @ericsiebert

2. About the speaker 25 year IT industry veteran. vSphere Land blog: http://vmware-land.com/ Author of popular books Contributor to industry publications vExpert nomination

3. Agenda Data restore levels Bare-metal restores File-level restores Application-level restores

4. Data Restore Levels 3 Different levels to backup and restore File level Image level Application item level SQL record

5. Data Restore Levels Each level has different advantages

7. Complicated restores require like hardware for image recovery

8. File level backups require application configurationVirtualization provides greater flexibility Backup Restore

10. Most virtualization backup applications use image backups

11. With an image backup, how are individual files restored?File-level Restore Agent VM Backup File-level Backup Restore

13. No agent on target server, so process is different

14. No need to restore entire VM

15. Process is different for virtualization, result the sameFile-level Restore VM image backup VM Image-level Backup

16. Traditional bare-metal restores Bare-metal restores do not require an OS present RestoreBackup Post-install tasks Pre-install tasks Backup Agent Backup Agent Simple OS (boot device) Simple OS (boot device)

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