Performing File-Level Restore

With guest OS file recovery (file-level restore), you can restore individual guest OS files and folders from VM backups created with Veeam Plug-in for Proxmox VE. When restoring files and folders, you do not need to extract the VM image to a staging location or start the VM prior to restore. For more information on VM guest OS file restore, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Guest OS File Recovery.

Important

Make sure to install the QEMU Guest Agent on VMs and enable it in the Proxmox VE administration portal — before the backups are created. You will not be able to install the agent during the recovery operation.

To restore VM guest OS files and folders, do the following:

Open the Home view.
In the inventory pane, select Backups.
In the working area, expand the necessary backup or snapshot job, right-click the VM that contains files you want to restore and and complete the File Level Restore wizard as described in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Recovering Guest OS Files Using Console.

Note

Depending on the operating system of a VM whose files and folders you want to restore, Veeam Backup & Replication may require a mount host — a server that will be used to mount VM disks. While completing the File Level Restore wizard, you will be able either to choose a server already added to the backup infrastructure or to specify connection settings of a new server that will used as the mount host. For more information on how Veeam Backup & Replication selects mount hosts, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Mount Host Automatic Selection.