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Veeam Backup Free Edition 9.0
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Step 6. Save Restored Files

After the restore process is complete, Veeam Backup Free Edition opens the Veeam Backup browser displaying the file system tree of the restored VM. Note that names of the restored VM hard disks may differ from the original ones.

You can perform the following operations with VM guest OS files in the Veeam Backup browser:

After you finish restoring files, you can close the Veeam Backup browser.

Step 6. Save Restored Files Note:

You can browse to the VM guest OS files mounted to the backup server only while the Veeam Backup browser with the restored files is open. After the Veeam Backup browser is closed, the VM disks will be unmounted from the backup server.

Saving Files to Original Location

To save files or folders to their original location, right–click the necessary file or folder in the file system tree or in the details pane on the right and select one of the following commands:

Step 6. Save Restored Files 

IMPORTANT!

Restore to the initial location may fail if you have excluded the system disk from the VM backup. To restore guest OS files in such situation, you can use 1-click file-level restore or copy files to the selected folder and then move them to the original location.

Step 6. Save Restored Files 

Saving Files to New Location

To save restored files or folders on the local machine or in a network shared folder:

  1. Right–click the necessary file or folder in the file system tree or in the details pane on the right and select Copy To.
  2. Choose to preserve their original NTFS permissions or not:
  1. If prompted, in the Credentials window specify settings of the user account to access the destination location.

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Launching Veeam Explorers

If you are restoring VM guest OS files of the virtualized Microsoft Active Directory Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server or Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle, you can launch a Veeam Explorer for the necessary application directly from the Veeam Backup browser.

  • To start Veeam Explorer for Oracle, browse to the Microsoft Oracle content database in the Veeam Backup browser, select it and click Oracle on the Home tab or double-click the database file.

Working with Windows Explorer

You can use Microsoft Windows Explorer to work with restored files and folders.

  1. Click Explore on the ribbon in the Veeam Backup browser or right-click the necessary folder and select Explore.
  2. Veeam Backup Free Edition will launch Microsoft Windows Explorer. Browse to the necessary VM guest OS files.

You can also start Microsoft Windows Explorer from the Start menu of Microsoft Windows and browse to the necessary VM guest OS files. VM disks are mounted under the C:\veeamflr\<vmname>\<volume n> folder of the backup server.

It is recommended that you use the Veeam Backup browser instead of Microsoft Windows Explorer for file-level restore. Use of the Veeam Backup browser has the following advantages:

  1. You can browse the VM guest OS file system ignoring the file system ACL settings.
  2. You can preserve permissions and ownership during file-level restore.

If you open the VM file system via the Microsoft Windows Explorer, these capabilities will not be available.

For more information, see SeBackupPrivilege and SeRestorePrivilege at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb530716(v=vs.85).aspx.

Closing Veeam Backup Browser

You can browse to VM guest OS files mounted to the backup server only while the Veeam Backup browser is open. After the Veeam Backup browser is closed, Veeam Backup Free Edition unmounts VM disks from the backup server.

It is recommended that you close the Veeam Backup browser after you have finished restoring VM guest OS files. When the Veeam Backup browser is open on the backup server, the backup file whose VM guest OS file system is displayed in the browser is locked on the backup repository. As a result, some scheduled operations that use this backup file may fail.

Veeam Backup Free Edition checks if there is any activity in the Veeam Backup browser with an interval of 5 minutes. If the user or Veeam Backup Free Edition components and services have not performed any actions for 30 minutes, Veeam Backup Free Edition displays a warning that the Veeam Backup browser is to be closed within 5 minutes.

After the warning is displayed, you can perform one of the following actions:

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