Error: File not found.
Restore from backup.
I made a mental note to tighten the permissions on the datastore browser. But for now, I just sat back and watched the backup job run, the progress bar inching forward, securing the data that, an hour ago, had been nothing but ghost bytes on a hard drive. recover deleted flat vmdk file
With the volume safe from further writes, I remounted it as Read-Only. Now came the hard part. Error: File not found
lsof | grep -i "deleted"