Granular Restore for ZStack

Create Granular Restore Job

Granular Restore feature allows you to recover files or folders from the VM backup restore point, you don’t have to restore the entire virtual machine for the purpose of recovering some files. To create a granular restore job, please go to Data Resilience > Private Cloud> Granular Restore page, you will see all the available restore points under ZStack.

Select one ZStack restore point where you can find your target file. The restore point can be a full, an incremental or a differential restore point. When done selecting the restore point, you may rename the granular restore job if necessary, then click on OK button to submit.

Granular Restore Job Operations

Once you finished creating the granular restore job, you’ll be redirected to the Monitor Center > Jobs page. The newly created granular restore job will be listed in the current job list in pending status.

To run the granular restore job, please click on Options, then select Start Job. And the job status will change into preparing. The preparation process will take several seconds to several minutes depending on the VM size and the performance of Vinchin Backup Server hardware. After this, the status will change to running.

When you get running status, please click on the job name to browse the file list of the VM.

There are three recovery methods to restore the specified files including Web download , Client transfer and Network sharing.

For Web Download, you can enter the directory, select the file or directory you want to download, and click the Download button.Hover your mouse over the folder you want to search and click the search icon to search for the file you want to download by its name.

The downloaded files will be in the original format, while the downloaded folders will be a .tar.gz package, use the below command to decompress the package then you get all files of the target folder.

tar –zxvf foldername.tar.gz

For Client transfer, you can select the file or directory you want to download, click the Client Transfer, and then configure the client transfer settings .

Please make sure that you have installed the agent on the target client.

Select the target client and the corresponding path will display, you can select specified folder to store the files or by hovering the mouse over the folder and clicking + icon, you can create a new folder to store.

You can rename, edit, delete this new folder or create new folder under it.

After setting these configuration, click OK to create the transfer job.

Click Transfer/Share job, you can manage the transfer job you have created.

For Network sharing, you can select a folder you want to share and then set the sharing configuration.

By clicking Configure access address, you can restrict sharing resource access permission by IP.

Set the username and password that will only be used in this network sharing session. Click OK to complete the configuration and create the sharing job.

Click Transfer/Share job, you can manage the share job you have created.

By clicking + button nearby the shared path, you can see mount command for different platform. Copy the command you need to the target client and enter the correct username and password, and then you can view the selected files.

Notice

Once you have done retrieving the files, please return to current job list, and stop the granular restore job. As if the granular restore job keeps running, certain system resources will always be occupied. And if the job is no longer needed, you can also delete the job from the current job list.