I start this topic because I found out from a painfull experience
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=48976&tstart=0
that virtual disks are stored in two files. If it is separated to smaller files like 2GB there is such files for every part.
The files are
disk_name_000001-s001.vmdk
and
disk_name-f001.vmdk
It seems that the f00 files akt like full storage and the s00 files are the incremental storage of the data.
How can I write all the changes of the s00 files to the f00 files???
The problem is that when I attach the disk to a new virtual machine it doesn't take into consideration the s00 files and the data is in my case two weeks old.
NOw the problem is that i cannot attach the 00001 disk, because the start of the new VM has changed the f00 disks, or at least that was what vmware server says. The message was:
Error loading disk into file /disk_name-000001.vmdk. The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created!
Is there a way to bypass this? I want to try to restore the newest data even if there are some mystakes on the disk. I need only the database file.
Is there a way to make the foo and soo files work as expected?