Restore Vmware From Delta: Vmdk [new]

Then she remembered: VMware snapshots store previous block states in deltas. The base VMDK still has the original block from 467 days ago. But delta 14 has the latest write. The corrupted block in delta 09 might actually be stale—overwritten in a later delta.

She had to restore from the delta —not the base. restore vmware from delta vmdk

vmkfstools -i "/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/FinServe-07/FinServe-07-000014.vmdk" \ "/vmfs/volumes/datastore2/FinServe-07-Restored.vmdk" -d thin The ETA: 11 hours. Then she remembered: VMware snapshots store previous block

Maria’s manager whispered over the bridge line: “Just roll back to the snapshot. We lose a day, fine.” restore vmware from delta vmdk