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 Backup 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 job, right-click the VM that contains files you want to restore and do the following:

If you want to restore files of a Microsoft Windows machine, select Restore guest files > Microsoft Windows and complete the Guest File Restore wizard as described in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Restoring VM Guest OS Files (FAT, NTFS or ReFS).
If you want to restore files of a Linux, Solaris, BSD, Novell Storage Services, Unix or Mac machine, select Restore guest files > Linux and other and complete the Guest File Restore wizard as described in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Restoring VM Guest OS Files (Multi-OS).

Note

To restore files of a VM with an operation system other than Microsoft Windows, Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE requires a helper appliance — a Linux server that will be used to mount VM disks. While completing the Guest File 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 helper appliance.