Linux, Unix and Other File System Restore from Storage Snapshots

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You can restore VM guest OS files from a storage snapshot. Veeam Backup & Replication supports file-level restore for the most commonly used file systems on Linux, Solaris, BSD, Unix and Micro Focus OES. For the full list of supported file systems, see Platform Support .

To restore files from VM guest OS, Veeam Backup & Replication uses a helper appliance. The helper appliance is a helper VM running a stripped down Linux kernel that has a minimal set of components. The appliance is quite small — around 50 MB. It requires 1024 MB RAM and takes around 10–20 seconds to boot.

When you perform file-level restore, Veeam Backup & Replication does the following:

On an ESXi host in your virtual environment, Veeam Backup & Replication creates a clone/virtual copy of the storage snapshot where the VM disks are hosted. Veeam Backup & Replication mounts the clone/virtual copy to the selected ESXi host as a new datastore.
Veeam Backup & Replication copies an ISO of the helper appliance to the datastore and starts the helper appliance.
Veeam Backup & Replication mounts the restored VM disks to the helper appliance as virtual hard drives. VMDK files are mounted directly from storage snapshots.
After disks are mounted, Veeam Backup & Replication launches the Veeam Backup browser where mounted VM disks are displayed. In the browser, you can restore files and folders to their original location, local machine drive or save them in a network shared folder.
When you restore files or folders, the mount server connects to the VM over network or VIX API/vSphere Web Services if a connection over the network cannot be established.
When the restore process is finished, Veeam Backup & Replication deletes the datastore, unmounts the clone/virtual copy from the ESXi host and then deletes this copy.

Prerequisites for FAT, NTFS or ReFS Restore from Storage Snapshots

Before you restore VM guest OS files from storage snapshots, check the following prerequisites:

You must add the storage system to the backup infrastructure.
You must check limitations for data recovery from storage snapshots.
If you plan to restore VM guest OS files to their original location, make sure that VMware Tools are installed on the target VM.
Veeam Backup & Replication restores ACL for recovered VM guest OS files. To let Veeam Backup & Replication detect the target Linux system architecture and kernel version, make sure that arch and uname are installed on the VM guest OS.
Veeam Backup & Replication must have access to the guest OS of the target VM to be able to deploy a coordination process. The coordination process performs a number of administrative actions on the target VM guest OS, for example, collects information about mount points.
The mount server, whether it is a helper host or a helper appliance, must have access over a network to a VM whose files you restore or direct access to vCenter or ESXi host where the VM resides. If the mount server is connected to a VM whose files you restore via VIX API/vSphere Web Services, you must use a root account for a target VM, otherwise the restore process will fail.
For Linux target VM, mind the following:

If you want to restore files over network, make sure that the SSH daemon is configured and SCP utility is available on the target VM.
SELinux must be disabled on the target VM.
A range of ports that are used for data transfer must be open on the target VM.

For more information on configuring connection settings for Linux servers, see the Specify Credentials and SSH Settings step of the New Linux Server wizard.

[For storage systems working over Fibre Channel] To let Veeam Backup & Replication present snapshots of LUNs to an ESXi host, you must register the ESXi host with a WWN ID on the storage system.
[For NetApp storage systems] Depending on the storage type, you may need to install additional licenses on the storage system. For more information, see Required Licenses for NetApp.

Performing Linux, Unix and Other File System Restore from Storage Snapshots

For information on performing restore from Linux, Unix and other file systems, see section Restoring VM Guest OS Files (Multi-OS).