Restore a File
- On the Home tab, click Restore.
- In the Restore from backup section, select Guest files (Windows) or Guest files (other OS) > Finish.
- That window will close and you will be presented with a File Level Restore wizard. Select the job the server is in and select the VM that you will be restoring from.
- At the Restore Point step of the wizard, select the restore point from which you want to restore the VM guest OS files.
- At the Restore Reason step of the wizard, enter a reason for restoring VM guest OS files. The information you provide will be saved in the session history and you can reference it later.
- Specify Restore Reason
- Review details of the restore task and click Finish to start restoring VM guest OS files from the backup.
- This can take some time to load and work depending on the size of the VM/disks.
- You will be presented with a file structure of the VM guest OS that you can browse.
- Locate the file or folder that you would like to restore.
- Right-click the file and select Restore > Keep if you would like to keep both copies. Veeam will add Restored- to the prefix of the original file's name.
- Right-click the file and select Restore > Overwrite if you would like to overwrite the current version of the file with the backed up copy.
- Select Copy To… if you would like to copy this file to a new location that you can specify.
- Once the restore is complete you can close the Backup Browser window and it will dismount the backup.