Partial guest restore

[Julian Lliteras]

Hi

Is it possible to restore a single disk image from a backup? For example, I got two virtual disks, one OS only disk and a data disk. If guest can't boot because some sort of corruption, how can I restore de OS disk only and try to boot?

Thanks in advance
Julian.

 

[fabian]

no, this is not supported out of the box. depending on your storage technology, you might be able to restore the backup to a temporary vm and manually move disks from one vm to another (e.g., by renaming the image/logical volume/.. and editing the config files) - but you should know what you are doing and have backups in case anything goes wrong (I would suggest trying it first with two throwaway VMs created just for testing).

 

[Julian Lliteras]

Thanks for reply, I known the idea of cloning a VM from a restore and doing some manual operations here. I ignore another direct approach.

Regards.
Julian.