Sunday, May 16, 2021

File recovery from VM backup(Recovery Service vault)

Backup service can be enabled on VM through recovery service vault. This will primarily facilitate restoration of a VM from Backup when disaster happens.  

Full VM restoration is  rare requirement ,how about recovering  files/folders incase the same is corrupted or accidentally deleted.  

File recovery capability of Recovery service vault can take care of this requirement.

1. Go to respective Vault

2. Select "Backup Items" from left panel 

3. Select the desire item from right side window.

4. From top menu click on "File Recovery" and follow the steps below




5. Click on the dropdown "Step 1: Select recovery point" and search for desire target date

6.  Save "Download Executable" locally and  run it, This will create a MAP drive

7.  Open windows explorer and browse through the map drive and copy the desire       
     files/folder to target VM

Once done , don't forgot to click "Unmount Disk"

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File recovery from VM backup(Recovery Service vault)

Backup service can be enabled on VM through recovery service vault. This will primarily facilitate restoration of a VM from Backup when disa...