This is an archive version of the document. To get the most up-to-date information, see the current version.

Guest OS File Recovery

In this article

You can use IFLR (Instant File-Level Restore) to recover individual VM guest OS files and folders from VM backups (Microsoft Windows and other file systems) and replicas (Microsoft Windows file systems). IFLR does not require you to extract the VM image to a staging location or start the VM prior to restore. You can restore files and folders directly from a regular image-level backup or replica to the necessary point in time.

IFLR works with any VM guest OS file system. Veeam Backup & Replication offers different tools and methods for different file systems:

For file-level restore from Microsoft Windows VMs with NTFS, FAT and ReFS file systems, you can use the File-Level Restore wizard. For more information, see Restore from FAT, NTFS or ReFS.
For file-level restore from Linux, Solaris, BSD, Unix, Mac and other file systems, you can use the multi-OS File-Level Restore wizard. For more information, see Restore from Linux, Unix and Other File Systems.
For file-level restore from file systems not supported by file-level restore wizards, you can leverage the Instant VM Recovery functionality. For more information, see Restore from Other File Systems.