The File and Folder Recovery Process
Use the Restore > File operation to recover specific files and folders from the recovery site.
When you recover specific files and folders from the recovery site, you can choose to either:
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Download the files as a compressed zip folder. |
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Restore the files to their original location in the production site. |
When you set up file and folder recovery, you always specify a checkpoint to which you want to recover the files and folders. When you select a checkpoint – either the last automatically generated checkpoint, an earlier automatically generated checkpoint, or a tagged checkpoint – Zerto makes sure that the files and folders replicated at the remote site are recovered to this specified point-in-time.
By using Search and Restore the user is able to quickly search for files and folders in specific VMs and restore either the virtual machine or VPG once the desired restore point is identified.
To use Search and Restore, the VM’s File System must first be indexed.
Considerations:
For file and folder recovery considerations or known issues, see Release Notes > Known Issues > File and Folder Level Recovery.
Restoring Files and Folders - high level workflow
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To RESTORE the files to their original location in the production site you will.... |
To DOWNLOAD the files as a compressed zip folder you will... |
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Create credentials with which you will access the protected VM. See Create New Credential Dialog.
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Create the credentials to access the protected VM (Setup > Guest Services Credentials > Add). |
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These credentials should have the following permissions on all paths to which the user wants to restore the file/s: |
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Select the virtual machine that is protected, on which the files or folders to recover are located |
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Select the checkpoint, to which the files and folders will be recovered. |
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Mount the selected virtual machine. |
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From the Task notification, click Browse to open the File and Folder: Restore window.
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Select the files and folders on the virtual machine to recover. |
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Download the selected files and folders.
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The files are downloaded to the machine where you run the Zerto User Interface. |
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Make sure that this machine has enough space for the recovered files. |
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Select the pre-defined credential alias with which you will access the protected VM. Then click Restore.
Make sure that this machine has enough space for the recovered files.
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Unmount the selected virtual machine.
Zerto does not support mounting the same virtual machine twice, for example if you want a file from two different checkpoints.
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See also: