Vmdk Recovery — File

find /vmfs/volumes/*/*/*.vmdk -size -10k -exec cp {} /backup/descriptors/ \;

Running the VM directly from the backup storage while it restores in the background. vmdk recovery file

First, let’s clear up a common point of confusion. In VMware circles, a "VMDK recovery file" usually refers to one of two things: find /vmfs/volumes/*/*/*

RAID failures or bad sectors on the physical hardware hosting the datastore. vmdk recovery file

If the VMDK is physically corrupted or has bad sectors, the best way to recover is to clone the data to a new, healthy disk. This skips bad blocks and attempts to copy readable data.