New VMware Data Recovery Appliance (vDR)

VMware has recently re-issued their VDR appliance – that runs as VM to back up VMs. It’s pretty cute, although limited to 100 VMs maximum.

http://blogs.vmware.com/uptime/2009/11/vmware-data-recovery-11-and-file-level-restore.html

That URL takes you screen dumps that show the new graphically based “File Level Restore” utility. Don’t get your hopes up too much. It still just mounts a restore point like the old CLI based FLR. It’s not like a backup agent that allows you to select files to restore and their destination (original or new). It’s basically a very good disk mounting wizard – you will still find yourself copying files from the mounting point to your virtual disk.