Performing File-Level Recovery

In case a disaster strikes, you can recover corrupted or missing files of an EC2 instance from a cloud-native snapshot or image-level backup.

You can use the following options:

• Download the necessary files and folders to a local machine.
• Restore the files and folders of the source EC2 instance to the original location.

By default, Veeam Backup for AWS restores files and folders to a local machine. If you want to perform restore to the original location, you must enable the Additional restore mode in the restore settings.

To learn how EC2 file-level recovery works, see File-Level Recovery. To learn how to configure network settings that will be used to deploy workers during the restore process, see Managing Worker Configurations.

How to Perform EC2 File-Level Recovery

To recover files and folders of a protected EC2 instance, do the following:

1. Check prerequisites and limitations.
2. Launch the EC2 File-level Recovery wizard.
3. Select a restore point.
4. Specify restore settings.
5. Specify a restore reason.
6. Finish working with the wizard — start a recovery session.
7. Choose files and folders to recover.
8. Stop the recovery session.