Mount points not available when restoring files from a Linux virtual machine

This topic applies to NetBackup for VMware.

For Linux virtual machines, only the ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems are supported for individual file restore. If a partition is formatted with some other file system, the backup succeeds but NetBackup cannot map the file system addresses of the files. As a result, NetBackup cannot restore individual files from that partition. Only the files that were on ext2, ext3, or ext4 partitions can be individually restored.

Note also: To restore individual files from their original mount points, the "/" (root) partition must be formatted as ext2, ext3, or ext4. If the "/" (root) partition is formatted with a different file system (such as ReiserFS), the mount points cannot be resolved. In that case, you can restore ext2, ext3, or ext4 files from the /dev level (such as /dev/sda1). You cannot restore the files from their original mount point level.