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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Version 7.1

Full VM recovery with application protection

Restoring a full VM that was backed up with self-contained application enabled, is the same as restoring a full VM that did not have self-contained application protection enabled. When the VM is powered on after a restore, the applications resume automatically, unless they are configured to be started manually.

Additional files are present on the Windows guest VM after the restore completes. These files are in the %TEMP%\TSM directory (where %TEMP% is the system environment variable for the account that runs the VMware vStorage API runtime files). These files can remain on the guest, or you can delete them. The Tivoli® Storage Manager backup-archive client used the files to perform the application protection functions. Since the snapshot was taken when the files were on the guest, the restored guest VM also contains them.

Parent topic: Restoring VMware vSphere or vCloud data

Recover a Microsoft Exchange mailbox item from a VM backup

To recover Microsoft Exchange Server mailbox items from a VM backup, you must use both Data Protection for VMware and the IBM® Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack® for Microsoft Exchange product and documentation. As a result, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Microsoft Exchange must be purchased separately with a valid license. For more information, see the following product website:
http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/storage-mgr-fastback-exchange/

A mailbox item recovery scenario uses the products in the following order:
  1. Access the VM backup by using the Data Protection for VMware Recovery Agent.
  2. Recover mailbox items by using FastBack for Microsoft Exchange.

Recover individual Microsoft SQL databases from a VM backup

To recover Microsoft SQL databases from a VM backup, you must use both Data Protection for VMware and the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases: Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server V7.1 product and documentation. As a result, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases: Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server V7.1 must be purchased separately with a valid license. For more information, see the following product website:
http://www.ibm.com/software/products/us/en/tivostormanafordata/

A recovery of a Microsoft SQL database from a VM backup scenario requires the following environment:
  • Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases: Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server V7.1 is installed and configured on a guest VM.
  • The Data Protection for VMware Recovery Agent feature is installed on the same guest VM as Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases: Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server V7.1. When you install Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments V7.1, select the Data Protection for VMware Recovery Agent feature.
  • The VSS service and SQL Server instance must be online and active. SQL Server databases that do not have an active instance are backed up. However, information about these databases is not saved to Tivoli Storage Manager. Therefore, these databases are not available for a database-level restore operation. You can restore these databases with a full VM restore operation.
VM backups are identified in the Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server GUI Recover page with Backup type VMVSS.

Restore of individual Microsoft SQL Server databases is available from basic disks with MBR-style partitions within the guest. If Microsoft SQL Server database data or log files are stored on a Windows Dynamic disk, or on a disk with GPT-style partitions, the database is not available at restore time.


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