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Restoring Guest Files and Folders for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

You can restore guest files and folders from instance backups to a physical machine or an instance. You can only restore files or folders to the source instance if a file system agent is installed on the source VM.

Before You Begin

To restore files from a Linux instance, deploy a file recovery enabler for Linux (FREL). The FREL instance must meet the following requirements:

  • CentOS 7.5 or 8

    Note

    For CentOS 8 instances, to install operating system packages that are required to enable automatic installation of Mono, register the instances with CentOS.

  • Virtual Server Agent and MediaAgent packages installed

For more information, see the following pages:

Procedure

  1. From the navigation pane, go to Protect > Virtualization.

    The Virtual machines page appears.

  2. On the Hypervisors tab, click the hypervisor.

    The hypervisor page appears. The VM groups area displays summary information for any existing VM groups.

  3. In the VM groups area, click Restore for the VM group that contains the instance.

  4. To restore from a specific copy of backup data, in the upper-right corner of the page, click Settings, and then from the Source list, select the copy.

    If you leave select Automatic selected, the restore operation searches for the requested data in the primary copy, and automatically selects a different copy if the data is not found in the primary copy.

  5. Select Guest files and folders.

    The Restore page appears.

  6. Expand the tree on the left and select the objects to be restored on the right. Select an item or click on an entry in the Name column to browse within an item. For hierarchical data such as files, folders, and disks, you can click an entry in the path listing above the right pane to return to a higher level of the hierarchy.

    In the top right corner of the page, a "Showing" message indicates what backup data is being displayed. You can click the down arrow beside this message and select any of the following options:

    • Show latest backups: Only display data for the most recent backups.

    • Show backups as of a specific date: Only display data up to the date you specify.

    • Show backups for a date range: Only display data within the data range you specify.

  7. Click Restore.

  8. In the Restore to dialog box, specify the destination for recovered files.

    By default, files are restored to the proxy that performed the backup.

    1. To restore in place, leave the value in the Destination list.

    2. Optional: To use the Impersonate user option, type the host name and credentials for the new destination.

      By default, the Local System account on the destination client is used to perform the restore operation; but you can use the Impersonate user option to provide credentials for another user account.

      The user must have permissions to create files in the specified location on the destination.

    3. For the Path box, type a full path or click Browse to select a destination folder.

  9. To delete an existing file and replace it with the restored file, select Overwrite if it already exists.

  10. Click Submit to run the restore job.

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