Step 3. Save Restored Files

When the backup file content is mounted to the /mnt/backup directory in the computer's file system, you can use Linux command line utilities or preferred file browser to work with restored files and directories. You can browse for files and directories in the mounted backup and copy files and directories that you want to restore to their initial location or to a new location.

NOTE

If a backed up file system was mounted to multiple mount points, during restore, depending on the file system type, Veeam Agent will behave as follows:

[root file system] Veeam Agent will restore all mount points to the root directory.
[non-root file system] Veeam Agent will restore all mount points to a single mount point randomly chosen from the mount points to which it was originally mounted.

In the following example, the restored file Report1.pdf is copied from the mounted backup to the new location with Linux command line utilities:

user@srv01:~$ ls Documents/
Reports
user@srv01:~$ ls /mnt/backup/FileLevelBackup_0/home/user/Documents/Reports/
Report1.pdf Report2.pdf
user@srv01:~$ cp /mnt/backup/FileLevelBackup_0/home/user/Documents/Reports/Report1.pdf Documents/
user@srv01:~$ ls Documents/
Report1.pdf Reports