Changes

A restore of a VM can be done by simply copying back all archived files to the original location on the ESXi host. It is also possible to copy the files to a different directory (or to another ESXi server) and add the vmx file to the inventory.

A restore of a VM can be done by simply copying back all archived files to the original location on the ESXi host. It is also possible to copy the files to a different directory (or to another ESXi server) and add the vmx file to the inventory.

Latest Affa version is '''smeserver-affa-2.0.0-beta15'''

Latest Affa version is '''smeserver-affa-2.0.0-beta16'''

{{Note box|This document is applicable to ESX3i with an USB boot device. It will most likely not work with other type of boot devices}}

{{Note box|This document is applicable to ESX3i with an USB boot device. It will most likely not work with other type of boot devices}}

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| chunkFiles

| string || || Filenames that Affa should chunk and compress. For ESXi set it to '*.vmdk' to chunk virtual disk files. Multiple file names are to be separated by the slash (/) character, e.g. 'mysql.dump/pgsql.dump' chunks the two files mysql.dump and pgsql.dump.

| string || || Filenames that Affa should chunk and compress. Multiple file names are to be separated by the slash (/) character, e.g. 'mysql.dump/pgsql.dump' chunks the two files mysql.dump and pgsql.dump. With ESXi=yes it is implicitly set to '*.vmdk'

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===== New command line options in Affa 2 =====

===== New command line options in Affa 2 =====