VMware Data Recovery protects against data loss in your virtual environment by enabling backups to disk as well as fast and complete recovery.  It's been some time since the last update.  But now VMware is back with a 1.2 release of this handy solution.

The following enhancements have been made for this release of Data Recovery.

• File Level Restore (FLR) is now available for use with Linux.
• Each vCenter Server instance supports up to ten Data Recovery backup appliances.
• The vSphere Client plug-in supports fast switching among Data Recovery backup appliances.
• Miscellaneous vSphere Client Plug-In user interface enhancements including:
  • The means to name backup jobs during their creation.
  • Additional information about the current status of destination disks including the disk's health and the degree of space savings provided by the deduplication store's optimizations.
  • Information about the datastore from which virtual disks are backed up.

There were also quite a few resolved issues which can be found in the release notes.

VMware also put out a 3 minute video walk through that really explains things very well.  Additional documentation can be found here.

You can download Data Recovery 1.2 here.