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 Scale Computing HyperCore. 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.

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, 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 Plug-in for Scale Computing HyperCore requires a helper host — 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 be used as helper host.

If you want to select temporary helper appliance as a helper host option, you can deploy it only on a VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V or Nutanix AHV machine.

For file-level restore to work, Veeam Plug-in for Scale Computing HyperCore must be able to obtain source VM IP address which requires guest tools to be installed on the VM.