Mount-VBRWindowsFileRestoreItems

Short Description

Mounts disks of VMs for which restore is launched to the Veeam Backup & Replication console.

Product Edition: Standard, Enterprise, Enterprise Plus, Veeam Universal License

Syntax

Mount-VBRWindowsFileRestoreItems [-Session <CRestoreSession>] [-FileRestore <FileRestore>] [<CommonParameters>]

Detailed Description

This cmdlet mounts disks of VMs for which restore is launched to the Veeam Backup & Replication console. After the disks are mounted, you can use Microsoft Windows File Explorer to work with restored files and folders. By default, the disks are mounted to the C:\VeeamFLR\ folder.

Note

It is recommended that you use Microsoft Windows File Explorer only to view file content, not to restore files. For guest OS file restore, use the Start-VBRWindowsGuestItemRestore cmdlet.

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Type	Required	Position	Accept Pipeline Input
Session	Specifies a session of Microsoft Windows guest OS file restore. The cmdlet will mount disks of the VMs for which the restore sessions was launched to the Veeam Backup & Replication console. Note: The restore session must be started within the current PowerShell session. This parameter is required if the FileRestore parameter is not specified.	Accepts the CRestoreSession object. To create this object, run the Get-VBRRestoreSession cmdlet.	False	Named	False
FileRestore	Specifies a session of Microsoft Windows guest OS file restore. The cmdlet will mount disks of the VMs for which the restore sessions was launched to the Veeam Backup & Replication console. Note: The restore session must be started within the current PowerShell session. This parameter is required if the Session parameter is not specified.	Accepts the FileRestore object. To create this object, run the Start-VBRWindowsFileRestore cmdlet.	False	Named	False

Parameter

Description

Type

Required

Position

Accept Pipeline Input

Session

Specifies a session of Microsoft Windows guest OS file restore. The cmdlet will mount disks of the VMs for which the restore sessions was launched to the Veeam Backup & Replication console.

Note: The restore session must be started within the current PowerShell session.

This parameter is required if the FileRestore parameter is not specified.

Accepts the CRestoreSession object. To create this object, run the Get-VBRRestoreSession cmdlet.

False

Named

False

FileRestore

Specifies a session of Microsoft Windows guest OS file restore. The cmdlet will mount disks of the VMs for which the restore sessions was launched to the Veeam Backup & Replication console.

Note: The restore session must be started within the current PowerShell session.

This parameter is required if the Session parameter is not specified.

Accepts the FileRestore object. To create this object, run the Start-VBRWindowsFileRestore cmdlet.

False

Named

False

This cmdlet supports Microsoft PowerShell common parameters. For more information on common parameters, see Microsoft Docs.

Output Object

None.

Examples

Mounting Disks of the VMs

This example shows how to mount disks of the Hv_DNS and Hv_DC VMs for which restore is launched.

$restore = Get-VBRRestoreSession -Name "Hv_DNS", "Hv_DC"

Mount-VBRWindowsFileRestoreItems -Session $restore

Perform the following steps:

Run the Get-VBRRestoreSession cmdlet. Specify the Name parameter value. Save the result to the $restore variable.
Run the Mount-VBRWindowsFileRestoreItems cmdlet. Set the $restore variable as the Session parameter value.

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