Limitations
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Restore
Virtual machine power state
When performing an image restore, as described in “Restoring the full image or selected
drives to the original virtual machine” on page 80, “Restoring the full image or selected
drives to a different (existing) virtual machine” on page 83, and “Restoring the full image
or selected drives to a new virtual machine” on page 86, the target virtual machine must
be powered off.
When performing an file-level restore, as described in “Restoring specific folders or files”
on page 89, the target virtual machine must be powered on.
File-level restore limitations
The following limitations apply to file-level restore as described in “Restoring specific
folders or files” on page 89:
◆ The following virtual disk configurations are not supported:
•Unformatted disks
•Dynamic disks
• GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks
•Ext4 filesystems
• FAT16 filesystems
• FAT32 filesystems
•Extended partitions
• Virtual disk with more than one partition
• Two or more virtual disks mapped to single partition
• Encrypted partitions
• Compressed partitions
◆ ACLs are not restored
◆ Symbolic links cannot be restored or browsed
◆ You cannot restore more than 5,000 folders or files in the same restore operation
◆ The following limitations apply to logical volumes managed by Logical Volume
Manager (LVM):
• One physical volume (.vmdk) must be mapped to exactly one logical volume
• Only ext2 and ext3 formatting is supported
◆ When partitions are created, the lower ordered indices must be filled first. That is, you
cannot create a single partition and place it in the partition index 2, 3, or 4. That
single partition must be at partition index 1.
Note: In some cases (most notably extended partitions), it may be possible to restore the
entire backup image to a temporary virtual machine as described in “Restoring the full
image or selected drives to a different (existing) virtual machine” on page 83 or
“Restoring the full image or selected drives to a new virtual machine” on page 86, then
selectively copy the folders or files you need.
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