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  2. NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide
  3. Configure NetBackup policies for VMware
  4. Exclude Disks tab
  5. Restoring data from the backups that excluded the boot disk or data disks
NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide

Restoring data from the backups that excluded the boot disk or data disks

If the policy's Excludes Disks option excluded the boot disk or data disks, you can restore the backed-up data as follows:

  • If Enable file recovery from VM backup was enabled on the backup policy: You can restore individual files from those portions of the virtual machine that the Virtual disk selection option did not exclude.

    See Restoring individual files.

  • If the Excludes Disks option was set to Exclude boot disk: You can restore the virtual machine and move the restored data disk(s) to another virtual machine.

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