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Avamar 7.0; Policy-->Clients; What is the meaning of the "Type" column; all are "client based" windows backups
Avamar 7.0 Gen4s; This screenshot is under the Policy --> Clients.
All our VMware image based backups are done in a different domain; I'd like to know what "Guest VM" and "Normal" refers to in the above screen shot (under Type column) Do I have a misconfiguration issue? What are the implications of this?
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dynamox
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you may have application requirements that need to have the agent installed, for example let's say you have a VM that uses GPT disks. Right now file level restore is not supported with GPT partitions so in that case you would have to install the agent inside of that VM. In case of complete VM corruption you could still use that full VM backup but for restoring individual files you would use the agent. Another case is where you are backing up a Active Directory controller, you have to have the agent installed to backup the system state.
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Virtual Machine for Guest Backup is a VM where Avamar agent was installed, it's smart enough to know that it's a VM. Normal is a physical server.
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June 23rd, 2014 10:00
Thank you. Is there any functionality gained by having the client agent know it is a VM or is this "informational only"
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Thanks for that helpful explanation.