Just curious how everyone is backing up / restoring Individual app stacks ?
Does one just restore the vmdk and vmdk.metadata to its original location ?
We of course have backups on our SAN.. but this is at the LUN / NFS Share level . No granularity.. It's bring it all back or nothing .
Would the easiest way be just to :
1) Make a Storage Group in the manager .
2) Mark the Destination Datastore as Not Attachable .. ( ie its the 'live backup ) .
3) Then i should have an exact replica of my app stacks on a different LUN ?
If i needed to restore an Individual App Stack i just copy over the corresponding VMDK and VMDK.Metadata from the backup to the source LUN ?
Just curious how everyone was doing Granular restores / backups..etc. of their app stacks.
There's Tons of hours of time on these . Would hate to lose them .
thanks .