{"id":9290,"date":"2020-02-12T06:48:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T20:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=9290"},"modified":"2020-03-04T12:05:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T02:05:22","slug":"basics-ppdm-19-3-file-level-search-from-image-based-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2020\/02\/12\/basics-ppdm-19-3-file-level-search-from-image-based-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"Basics \u2013\u00a0PPDM 19.3 File Level Search from Image-Based Backups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been really looking forward to this demo video. When PPDM 19.3 was being worked on, I sat in a presentation about the upcoming features where the search capability was described.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not talking interface search \u2013&nbsp;that&#8217;s cool stuff, but this is the ability to search for files from VMware image-based backups. So what, you might say \u2013&nbsp;file search from image-based backups has been around for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, it has been, but not like this. I was actually a little disbelieving when it was first explained. You see, in order to achieve file search from image-based backups, other backup products will usually do something like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Mount the image after the backup to do a directory listing, or<\/li><li>Have an agent running within the virtual machine to scan the directory listing during the backup.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>PPDM, of course, does it better. It builds up a searchable index for the virtual machine as it&#8217;s being backed up \u2013&nbsp;without any agents running. In fact, in some testing, I&#8217;ve enabled search against virtual machines that are <em>powered off<\/em>, and I still get full indexing available as soon as the backup is complete. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was excited about the search engine and indexing process just from the description I got. Then I deployed it and ran my first search \u2013&nbsp;this is <strong><em>damn fine tech<\/em><\/strong>. So here&#8217;s a video showing the entire end-to-end process:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_19033\"  width=\"688\" height=\"516\"  data-origwidth=\"688\" data-origheight=\"516\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_mKIaTgztVg?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"PPDM 19.3 - Deploying and Using VM Search (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_mKIaTgztVg\" target=\"_blank\">PPDM 19.3 &#8211; Deploying and Using VM Search<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m really impressed by this functionality, and I&#8217;m certain you will be too once you see it in operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been really looking forward to this demo video. 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