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Recipe: Performing an Instant File Share Recovery

Expected deliverables:

A file share published to enable users to instantly access all protected files in read-only mode for NFS File Shares, and full access mode for SMB File Shares.

Time to complete: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

• Instant file share recovery is supported for SMB and NFS file shares.
• At least one restore point must be available for the file share using a NAS Backup Job

Before you start:

NFS File shares recovered with instant recovery are available in the read-only mode.

Assumptions:

It’s assumed that you already have a Veeam Backup Server fully working in your environment.

Method:

1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication Console and go to the Home view.
2. Click in Backups. In the working area, expand the necessary backup, right-click the file share that you want to restore and select Instant file share recovery.
3. At the File Shares step, select the file share for which you want to perform instant recovery.
   • If you needed, you can click in Point to select a different restore point. Click Next.
4. At the Mount Servers step, specify mount server settings for published file shares.
   • By default Veeam will select the mount server automatically.
   • If you select the Manual selection option, you can specify which mount server to use to individually publish each file share.
5. If Veeam detects missing security descriptors on the file share, then in the Access Permissions step of the wizard you can specify the owner account and permissions for the file share.
   • From the File shares list, select a file share.
   • Click Set Owner and specify the owner account for the file share.
   • Click Permissions and configure access permissions for the file share. Default is Allow to everyone.
6. At the Reason step, specify the reason for performing instant file share recovery.
7. At the Summary step, review the instant file share recovery settings and click Finish. Veeam will publish the file share to the specified mount servers.

Important: After a SMB File Share have been successfully recovered, you can keep any change by migrating the mounted file share to production. If you do not need the published share any more (SMB or NFS), you can stop the file share publishing.

Links to Resources:

• Veeam Guides and Helpcenter
• Veeam Community Forums
• [Veeam Best Practices]

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