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Note: You can also use a virtual machine to run the server component of a client-

server backup product, provided you give it access to one or more tape drives.

Note: Backing up from within a virtual machine has the benefit of allowing fine-

grained recovery of your data.

• You can restore file data by the individual file.

• You can restore database data via the normal database-specific method.

However, if there is a disaster and you need to restore the virtual machine from a

backup made from within the virtual machine, you need to recreate the virtual

machine and load recovery software into it before restoring data from the backups.

To configure a virtual machine so you can use a tape drive from within it, follow these

steps:

1. Be sure the virtual machine is powered off so you can modify the configuration.

2. Check the configuration page in the management interface to be sure the

controller to which the tape drive is attached is allocated for the exclusive use of

virtual machines.

3. Return to the overview page, move the mouse pointer over the terminal icon

beside the name of the virtual machine on which you want to use the tape drive,

then choose Edit Configuration.

4. In the SCSI Devices section of the configuration page, click the check box to

select the virtual SCSI device you want to connect to the tape drive. Click New

Disk…, then from the drop-down list on the Create VMFS File page, choose the

device name that has the word tape in parentheses next to it. For example, if

the tape device is on the server’s second SCSI controller at target ID 0 and LUN 0,

the device name might be vmhba1:0:0:0(tape). The partition number for

a tape drive is always 0.

5. Click Create. Then on the Configure VM page, click Save Changes to save the

updated configuration.

6. Power on the virtual machine. The tape drive should be available at the SCSI ID

you selected on the virtual machine’s configuration page.

Backing Up Virtual Machines from the Console Operating

System

You may also choose to back up your virtual machines by copying to tape the entire

virtual disk files and any redo logs, along with the backups of the console operating

system. This approach has the benefit of making it easy to restore your virtual

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