Searching for Items in Unstructured Data Backups

Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager allows you to search unstructured data (file shares and object storage systems) for specific items. After you find necessary files, you can select them to perform file restore.

Important

When you back up unstructured data, file system indexing is not created. Therefore, advanced search capabilities using filters are not available.
By default, backup repository is the primary destination for the search. This means, in particular, that if a backup is stored both in a repository and tape, the Enterprise Manager search results will only include the items from backup stored in the repository. Files from tape-archived backup will appear in search results only if nothing is found in the repository (the capability is supported in the Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions).

To perform simple search, do the following:

On the Unstructured Data tab, select a data source and click Restore.

Alternatively, on the Files tab, in the Search backups of field, enter the name of a data source whose items you want to browse or click the Pick from List link and select a data source in the Select Object window. Then click Mount.

In the Search backups of field, enter the name of a data source whose items you want to restore or click the Pick from List link and select the necessary data source in the Select Object window.
In the search field, enter the name of the necessary item or a part of it.
To view the search results, press [Enter] or click Search.