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Hi Wil,
Had to restore some Vimalin backups last weekend and noticed on
one of the restores, the .vmx was missing.
It was also missing within the Vimalin target folder.

Luckily I was able to copy the .vmx from the corrupted VM.

Do you have any thoughts on this?
Am I using an old Vimalin or one with a bug ?

Hi,

Vimalin does not copy the .vmx file as .vmx, but as .vml.
See also: https://www.vimalin.com/frequently-asked-questions/
under "Why can I not open a backup directly".

Still hard to say what happened here based on your post.
I take it you followed the steps for restoring the backup as is described here:
https://www.vimalin.com/documentation/wi...ne-backup/

If you want me to take a look at it, then please email me your support bundle and support@vimalin.com

FWIW, there is no known bug where the .vmx file would not be restored.
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Wil

You are right about the .VML file.
My restore has the suffix "- backup yyyy-mm-dd" attached so I did restore it via Vimalin.
Might be I am seeing things because I didn't sleep for more than 24 hours 

Right now the host does not have enough diskspace, but I am gonna add some storage and restore the same VM again.
I will let you know the results....