How to Restore Individual Files from a VMWare Image-Level Backup? (4032476)

Recovery of a single or multiple files and/or folders is required without having to restore the whole virtual machine which will required additional time and storage space to complete.

Pre-requisite

File-level restore for regular savesets created with NetVault Plugin for VMWare is only possible if a file index was created during the backup job. If during the backup process, the option to "Perform File Level Indexing" wasn't selected or the process to create the index failed, the virtual drive file will need to be restored to extract the required data.

When restoring files from a CDP backup, the file-level indexing occurs automatically during the restore process rather than the backup process. File-level recovery of a CDP backup is only available with a QoreStor storage device version 7.1.2 or later.

1. From the left navigation pane, click Create Restore Job.
2. On the Create Restore Job - Choose Saveset screen, locate the backup created with the NetVault Plugin for VMWare with the file/s and/or folder/s to be restored.
3. Press the [🔄️Restore] button.
4. On the Create Selection Set screen, expand the nodes by clicking on [+] and select the file/s and/or folder/s that will be restored.
5. Press the [📝Edit Plugin Options].
6. Navigate to the Restore Files tab.
7. Choose the Files Restore radio button.
   • If this radio button is not selected, the job will fail with error message "Please select 'Restore files from backup' and set restore path in the restore options."
8. On the Target directory field, type in the location on the VMWare Proxy where the file/s will be restored.
   • If the Target directory field is empty, the job will fail with error message "Please select 'Restore files from backup' and set restore path in the restore options."
   • Create Directory Path explicitly will create the directories specified on the Target directory field. If this option is not selected and the directory is missing when the restore job is running, it will fail with the error message "Restore directory '[Target directory]' does not exist or has incorrect permissions."
   • If the selected location runs out of space during the restore job, it will fail with the error message "Failed to prepare target FileSystem for the restore."
9. The option Split Restored Virtual Disks is used to restore virtual disk/s into 2 GiB files. When the box is not checked, the plug-in restores a single disk .vmdk file. This option is only available for savesets created using Plug-in for VMware version 10.0.5 and later.
10. Press the [✔️OK] button to save the options.
11. Press the [>Next] button to advance to the next screen.
12. On the Create Restore Job, the Target Client drop down list can be used to specify an alternate VMWare Proxy to run the restore job.
13. Press the [Save and Submit] button to run the restore job.