Hi st3lib, welcome to the forums.
Currently there is no such report on Guest Indexing, and regrettably no means of exporting the Guest Index or reading from the index directly.
If it's a hard requirement to have a full list of files, Disk Publishing can help here and you can use Powershell indeed. Or, you can use Powershell and Compare-VBRWindowsGuestItemAttributes to compare the backup to production and get a listing that way as well as information on differences between the backup and the production machine.
A quick question, what is the specific requirement from the client that they need a list of files on the machine? VMs are backed up at the image level, not in-guest at the file level, so the current state of the machine will always be captured in the backup, regardless of full or incremental. If a given file isn't in backups, then the file was not on the server at the time of backup (or on an excluded disk).
If you can explain the requirement a bit more, perhaps there's a better way of meeting the requirements for your customer's approval.
Currently there is no such report on Guest Indexing, and regrettably no means of exporting the Guest Index or reading from the index directly.
If it's a hard requirement to have a full list of files, Disk Publishing can help here and you can use Powershell indeed. Or, you can use Powershell and Compare-VBRWindowsGuestItemAttributes to compare the backup to production and get a listing that way as well as information on differences between the backup and the production machine.
A quick question, what is the specific requirement from the client that they need a list of files on the machine? VMs are backed up at the image level, not in-guest at the file level, so the current state of the machine will always be captured in the backup, regardless of full or incremental. If a given file isn't in backups, then the file was not on the server at the time of backup (or on an excluded disk).
If you can explain the requirement a bit more, perhaps there's a better way of meeting the requirements for your customer's approval.
Statistics: Posted by david.domask — Jul 02, 2025 8:16 am
