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Restoring Guest Files and Folders for VMware Cloud Director

You can restore files and folders from a guest virtual machine.

The Virtual Server Agent uses block-level live browse to enumerate files and folders in a backup, eliminating the need to capture metadata during backups. When browsing a virtual machine, files and folders are displayed after a short delay.

Note

Agentless restores can be used to restore small files and folders into a virtual machine without installing an agent on the destination client. You can perform an agentless restore from the Command Center. For more information, see Agentless Restores for VMware.

Before You Begin

To restore files and folders from Linux guest VMs, deploy a File Recovery Enabler for Linux.

Procedure

  1. From the CommCell Browser, expand Client Computers > virtualization_client > Virtual Server > VMware Cloud Director > backup_set.

  2. Initiate the restore from a subclient or backup set:

    • From a subclient: Right-click the subclient, and then click Browse and Restore.

    • From a backup set: Right-click the backup set, point to All Tasks, and then click Browse and Restore.

    The Browse and Restore Options dialog box appears.

  3. Select Guest Files and Folders, and then click View Content.

    The Client tab appears.

  4. From the list of backed up virtual machines, expand a virtual machine, select files or folders to be restored, and then click Recover All Selected.

    The Restore Options for All Selected Items dialog box appears.

  5. To specify the type of information that should be restored, select one of the following options:

    • Restore ACLs Only

    • Restore Data Only

    • Restore Both Data and ACLs

  6. To replace files or folders with the same names at the specified destination, select the Unconditional Overwrite check box.

  7. From the Destination Client list, select a client that resides in the same CommCell as the source client.

  8. For the Specify destination path value, click Browse to select a folder on the destination client.

    Alternatively, enter the UNC path or the location of the NFS mounted file system. For example, enter \\servername\sharename. Do not specify a drive letter associated with a mapped drive.

    The restored data inherits the rights (or permissions) of the parent folder.

  9. Optional: Under Preserve Source Paths, select one of the following options:

    • Preserve n level from end of source path: Specifies whether the restore operation must keep the specified number of levels at the end of source path of the selected data.

      For example, if the selected data is Documents\Memos\Sales, this option is set to 1, and the destination path is temp, the data will be restored as \temp\Sales.

    • Remove n level from beginning of source path: Specifies whether the restore operation must remove the specified number of levels from the beginning of source path of the selected data.

      For example, if the selected data is Documents\Memos\Sales, this option is set to 1, and the destination path is \temp, the data will be restored as \temp\Sales.

  10. To specify user credentials on the destination client, select Impersonate User.

    In the User Name, Password, and Confirm Password boxes, enter the credentials for a user account that has all permissions for the destination path to which data will be restored. This user must have permissions to create files in the destination folder. Without these permissions, the recovery operation will not complete successfully.

  11. Click OK to submit the restore job.

The following methods are also supported for VMware Cloud Director file recovery:

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