Restoring VM Files

In case a disaster strikes, you can recover corrupted or missing files of an Azure VM from a cloud-native snapshot or image-level backup. Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Azure allows you to download the necessary files and folders to a local machine using the File-Level Recovery Explorer.

Important

Consider the following:

File-level recovery is supported from FAT, FAT32, NTFS, EXT2, ext3, ext4, XFS, BTRFS file systems only. For Microsoft Windows systems, file-level recovery is supported for basic volumes only.
File-level recovery to the original location is supported only for Windows-based Azure VMs running Windows Server version 2016 (or later) and Windows version 10 (or later).
File-level recovery of Azure VMs with the Azure Disk Encryption option enabled is not supported in the current Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Azure version.
File-level recovery from virtual disks with Windows-native Data Deduplication enabled is not supported. To work around the issue, you can restore entire virtual disks, and then attach these disks to an Azure VM with the deduplication feature enabled. To learn how to restore entire virtual disks, see Restoring VM Disks.

To recover files and folders of a protected Azure VM, do the following: