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Recipe: Performing File-Level Recovery

Expected deliverables:

Files in the VM recovered at the time of backup state.

Time to complete: 10 minutes

Ingredients:

A Google Cloud VM cloud-native snapshot or image-level backup
The protected Google Cloud VM must have a supported file system (Microsoft NTFS, FAT or FAT32 / Linux ext2, ext3, ext4, XFS, Btrfs)
A Worker Configuration in the same region and availability zone where original VM resides, and wherte the storage bucket with backup data resides.
If you plan to restore files to the original location, make sure the instance is powered on. In addition, the instance network must have the following firewall rule to allow access by IAP tunnel: IP address range 35.235.240.0/20, ports 22 and 5986.
To restore to Linux-based VMs, SSH access must be allowd, and the appliance must have root access.
To restore to a Windows-based VMs, WinRM must be configured.

Before you start:

Make sure the machine where you plan to open the File-Level Restore browser is allowed to access the worker instances over the internet (TCP 443).

Assumptions:

You have an existing Veeam Backup for Google Cloud deployment, and backups of one or more Google Cloud VMs.

Method:

Login the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud web interface.
Navigate to Protected Data > VM. Select the VM instance whose files and folders you want to recover, and click File-Level Recovery.
At the Instances step, select a restore point that will be used to recover files and folders (by default the most recent restore point). Click Next.
At the Restore Mode step, you can choose whether you want to download files and folders to a local machine or restore them to the original location. In case of enabling the Restore to original location option, you need to specify a service account that has the permissions required to perform the restore operation.
At the Verification step, check all verifications are Passed, or double check the previous steps and pre-requisites in case of any warning or error.
At the Reason step, specify a reason for recovering files and folders. Click Next.
At the Summary step, review summary information and click Finish.
As soon as you click Finish, Veeam will close the File-level Recovery wizard, start a recovery session and display the FLR Running Sessions window.
In the FLR Running Sessions window, in the URL column of the window, Veeam will display a link. Click the link to open the File-Level Restore browser on your local machine.
In the File-Level Restore browser:
- Navigate to a folder that contains the necessary files
- In the working area, select check boxes next to the files and click Add to Restore List.
- Switch to the Restore List tab, review the list of items to recover, select check boxes next to the items, and click Download or Restore in case you want to restore to the original location.
After you finish working with the File-Level Restore browser, click Stop Recovery Session in the FLR Running Sessions window to finish the process.

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