Step 3. Restore Files and Directories
To restore files and directories by copying them from a backup mounted to Veeam Agent machine, you must do the following:
After you selected backup and restore point at the Backup step of the wizard, in the Select action window, select Mount and press [Enter].
Veeam Agent will mount the content of the backup file to the /mnt/backup directory in the machine's file system and display a notification window with the corresponding message. Press [Enter] to close the window and return to the Veeam Agent control panel.
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When you finish working with restored data, you must unmount the backup from the /mnt/backup folder. To unmount the backup, in the Veeam Agent control panel, press [U]. For details, see Stopping Backup Mount Session. |
When the backup file content is mounted to the /mnt/backup directory in the machine's file system, you can use Oracle Solaris 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.
In the following example, the restored file Report1.pdf is copied from the mounted backup to the new location with Oracle Solaris command line utilities:
user@srv01:~$ ls Documents/ |
When Veeam Agent mounts a backup for file-level restore, Veeam Agent starts a new backup mount session. To unmount a backup, you need to stop the backup mount session. This may be required, for example, if you want to stop working with files and directories in one backup and mount another backup for file-level restore. You can also stop the backup mount session to unmount a backup after you have finished working with restored files and directories.
To stop the backup mount session, do the following:
- Launch the Veeam Agent control panel with the veeam or veeamconfig ui command.
- In the Veeam Agent control panel, press the [U] key to unmount the backup.
- Veeam Agent will stop the backup mount session and display a notification window. Press [Enter] to close the window and return to the Veeam Agent control panel.
