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Data Restore in Direct NFS Access Mode

Data restore in the Direct NFS access transport mode is performed in the following way:

The backup proxy retrieves data blocks from the backup repository or a datastore in the target site.
The backup proxy sends a request to the ESXi host to restore data to an NFS datastore.
The ESXi host allocates space on the NFS datastore.
Data blocks obtained from the backup proxy are written to the NFS datastore over LAN.