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VM Guest File System Indexing

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You can instruct Veeam Backup & Replication to create an index of files and folders on the VM guest OS during backup. Guest file indexing allows you to search for VM guest OS files inside VM backups and perform 1-click restore in Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager.

VM guest OS file indexing is enabled at the job level. You can specify granular indexing settings for every VM in the job.

VM Guest File System Indexing Note:

VM guest file system indexing is optional. If you do not enable this option in the backup job settings, you will still be able to perform 1-click restore from the backup created with such backup job. For more information, see https://helpcenter.veeam.com/backup/em/preparing_for_file_browsing.html.

VM Guest File System Indexing

Requirements for VM Guest OS Indexing

Veeam Backup & Replication supports file indexing for VMs running Microsoft Windows and Linux OS.
Linux VMs must have the mlocate tool installed (a standard tool for majority of Linux distributions).