We are using Backup Exe 2010R3 to backup VMWare 4.1 hosts. We have the VMware agent loaded as well as the Windows agent loaded into the Guest VMs. Here is the situation: One of our Guest VMs' C: drive crashed and was damaged so that we could not do a Windows restore to it using the Windows backup. We decided to restore using the VMware backup. Because the Guest VM had two drives, C: and D: we tried restoring the VMDK file for C: drive only. That job failed and said the we needed to click the option to "Delete existing virutal machines prior to restore". When we clicked that option and resubmitted the job, it deleted both VMDK files for the C: and D: drives and then did a full restore. We had hoped to save the D: drive data.
My question is this, is it possible to restore only the VMDK file for one specific drive or as in our senario, do we have to restore the whole VM?
Thanks for the help and advice.